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Google's DeepMind has been used to train a robot arm to play table tennis, and it beat human players.

An amateur fossil hunter in Mississippi found the first known mammoth fossil in the region — a well-preserved tusk that weighed about 600 pounds (270 kilograms).

The moon was once thousands of miles farther away than it is now, and Earth's days were 2.2 hours longer, a new study finds.

Scientists sequenced the largest known animal genome in a species of lungfish — ancient fish that breathe air.

A new study has cleared up misconceptions about the extinct dodo, identifying the reference specimen for the species and showing they were fast and powerful.

Defense systems found in all complex life, including the human body, came from primeval microbes known as 'Asgards.'

SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronaut Jared Isaacman briefly "touched the void" as he embarked on the first-ever private spacewalk Thursday (Sept. 12).

Expect an above-average hurricane season, forecasters say.

From the humble trillion to Graham’s number, here are some of the most massive numbers ever conceived by humans.

Scientists reprogrammed a woman's fat cells to become insulin-making beta cells, reversing her type 1 diabetes.