A manned mission to Mars presents a huge array of challenges for scientists and explorers to figure out. Chief among them: how to keep humans sane and relatively content on the isolati ...

This new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — just misses the event horiz ...

A Siberian squirrel mother feeds her babies to build their strength throughout the winter. But once Spring arrives, these youngsters must take to the skies themselves.

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The flat earther community seems to be growing, and it's beginning to worry me. It's not just a question of lacking science ...

You'd think that there are some features that, once an animal group evolved to have them, could never really go away, right?

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Changes in personality following a heart transplant have been noted pretty much ever since transplants began. In one case, a ...

We often hear industry and political leaders talk about how we need to balance the economy with the environment. The thinking ...

Avalanches are beautiful, majestic, and completely terrifying – this is a video all about the science of avalanches.

Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals, so far it has never been known that animals ...

At the end of the Cold War, many thinkers optimistically predicted that globalization would cause societies’ social values to ...