Design: Peter Nickolaus Artist's reconstruction of a spiny dormouse in the wetlands of the Hammerschmiede inset shows the upper molar ...

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A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

Christmas 2025 marks the very first Christmas Pope Leo will be serving as pontiff for the traditional holiday mass. The mass is free, but tickets are required. If you can’t make it to Rome this ...

The tale of Christmas Eve, sung out by the youth choir at Fourth Presbyterian Church. "My daughter has been performing in the choir here since she was three," Justin Epps said. "It's a big part of the ...

A slow-burning economic crisis in Iran has reached a tipping point after a slump in the national currency to a record low made even basic goods unaffordable for much of the population. Shopkeepers and ...

Netflix’s latest Korean blockbuster The Great Flood has surged to the top of the platform’s global charts for nonglobal films, but audiences are divided over its cryptic ending and philosophical twist ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

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Pope Leo XIV on Christmas Day deplored the “falsehoods” used to justify wars that leave young people “forced to take up arms” and “sent to their deaths,” while also drawing attention to the ...