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Extreme weather events driven by human-induced climate change continued to disproportionately hit poorer communities in 2025, a group of international scientists found.

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.

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In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...