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A U.S.-Russian space crew landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Sunday after an eight-month stint on the ...

The gigantic wildfire ravaging southwestern France has created an extremely dangerous "pyrocumulonimbus"—a phenomenon never ...

The fossilized spines of saber-toothed cats in the La Brea Tar Pits reveal evidence of an unexpectedly high prevalence of ...

By analyzing the data from NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope, Chinese astronomers have investigated a recently ...

The laws of thermodynamics state that heat naturally flows from hotter systems or regions to colder systems or regions until ...

Many molecules exist in two mirror-image forms—like left and right hands—that look identical but can behave very differently, ...

In nature, the rarest ingredient can be the one that holds everything together. In a new article published in Trends in ...

Researchers have developed a DNA vacuum that can suck genetic traces from animals out of the air and reveal which animals ...

As the construction of a hydroelectric dam loomed, archaeologists raced to uncover Angola's earliest dated burials and its ...

Scottish firefighters fought a wildfire Saturday that was burning through Cairngorms National Park in the north, with ...

The northern highlands of Ethiopia are among Africa's oldest agricultural landscapes. Some of the world's most important ...