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This burial urn depicts a person, accompanied by skulls, as they are received into the Maya underworld. QUICK FACTS Name: Urn with jaguars and skulls What it is: A ceramic burial urn Where it is from: Guatemala When it was made: Circa A.D. 600 to 900 This colorful ceramic urn depicts a person wearing a

Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the particles these collisions sprayed out. If confirmed, that pattern could help reveal how the hot soup of quarks and gluons that filled the universe in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang cooled and condensed into

Earth glows like a half moon while a giant aurora writhes over the North Pole in this ultraviolet image from the new Smile spacecraft. Quick facts What it is: An aurora on the sunlit side of Earth Where it is: Over the North Pole, as seen from about 75,000 miles away When it was shared:

About 1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections with viruses, bacteria or parasites, a new study finds, suggesting that one of the most effective ways to reduce cancer rates might be to prevent common infections. In a new analysis published Sept. 28 in the journal The Lancet Oncology, researchers mapped the global impact

Mammals first appeared on Earth over 200 million years ago, scuttling around alongside the dinosaurs as little mouse-sized creatures. But after the asteroid hit 66 million years ago, it was their time to shine ‪—‬ and the Age of Mammals began. But the path to understanding our own branch of the animal kingdom hasn’t been

Could a psychedelic drug help the brain recover from mild injuries? New research suggests that psilocybin, the mind-bending ingredient in magic mushrooms, might protect the brain from the damage caused by minor head impacts. Even mild head impacts that don’t count as concussions can raise the risk of neurodegenerative disorders such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy