English naturalist Joseph Banks was the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, the oldest continuously existing ...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years ...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...

Identical twins may look exactly alike, but they differ in some pretty weird ways. In this List Show, we'll explore five of them.

Physicists are obsessed with black holes, but we still don’t know what’s going on inside of them. One idea is that black holes do not truly exist, but instead the ...

When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact, ...

Auditory hallucinations are likely the result of abnormalities in two brain processes: a “broken” corollary discharge that ...

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U.S. Sen.Ted Cruz compared critical race theory — an academic subfield that examines the role of racism in American ...

MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium Falcon in the film “Star Wars,” that could someday help bi ...

An international team of researchers led by Lancaster University have made a promising breakthrough in the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer’s Disease. For the first time, scientists have ...

Insects are the world’s most numerous and diverse animals. Even where you’d least expect them in some of Earth’s most extreme environments, there they are. From a scaldin ...