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A U.S. government-funded study has provided evidence of a hopeful treatment for people struggling with…

Electric eels were already exceptionally weird fish. These eels—actually three different species of giant, South…

Blue Origin is planning to launch an upgraded New Shepard spacecraft today, along with a test dummy named Mannequin…

A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the oldest—if not the…

Using a signal from dozens of rapidly spinning, dead stars, astrophysicists have gotten closer to realizing their…

Picture this: It’s about 20 million years ago, and you’re inside the giant womb of an extremely pregnant Otodus…

Being extremely tall is sort of a giraffe’s whole thing. So when scientists recently spotted two wild giraffes with…

Waddling, wriggling, ambling, digging, laying eggs. There’s no shortage of verbiage when it comes to describing…

A68a, the world’s most famous iceberg, is still hanging out near South Georgia island, along with its recent…

Doctors in Japan say a man’s accidental ingestion of a toothpick left him dealing with months of pain in his back…

On the night of November 23, 2014, a powerful telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii was trying to pick out the enigmatic…

Two prevailing theories exist about the origin of domesticated dogs. One proposes that prehistoric humans used early…

One by one, the archaeologists stumbled upon pieces of junk. Using techniques typically reserved for documenting…

New York could soon make it easier for people to legally get high. On Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his…

A team of scientists claim to have found a novel way to treat stubborn skin infections that don’t respond to…

Conservationists in Guatemala have documented a rare example of a predatory wildcat preying on another. Sadly,…

High up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, miles away from the dull glow of light pollution, the secluded Atacama Cosmology…

Space is full of surprises, like this apparent star—which, given the tumultuous circumstances of its formation,…

The Pentagon has granted Lockheed Martin a $4.9 billion contract to build three missile-warning satellites for the…

It’s official. In the latest of the Trump administration’s last-minute assaults on regulatory policy, the…