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Researchers have found genetic signatures among Britons that betray their historical roots in particular locales of the United Kingdom, leading to the finest-scale map of genetic variation yet created. The analysis — which shows a snapshot of clusters of genetic variation in the late 1800s, when people were less likely to migrate far from their…

In its final weeks, the MESSENGER mission reveals fresh details about the planet’s scorched surface.

The world is full of bloody conflicts that can drag on for decades. Some researchers are trying to find resolutions through complexity science.

Long-awaited shift in tropical Pacific will have little effect on weather patterns.

In drought-ridden US, water managers consider using a coating one molecule thick to reduce evaporation from reservoirs.

The development of some countries is as predictable as steady winds, but for others it is more chaotic, physicists find.

Faint star with even fainter companion came close enough to perturb comets in the distant Oort cloud some 70,000 years ago.

Astronomers have observed Jupiter for centuries. But a study that looks at the gas giant as if it were an exoplanet could help to make more reliable interpretations of the atmospheres of bodies orbiting stars hundreds of light years away. The results largely confirm the conventional picture of Jupiter, but also reveal some surprises —…

Large ancient-DNA study uncovers population that moved westwards 4,500 years ago.