Unsurprisingly, the media has focused on Pettit's age, as the astronaut turned 70 on the very day he returned to Earth. At ...

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It only took a century, but we've finally managed to film a live colossal squid in the flesh – and it's a baby!

O lo is described as a "new color" that scientists argue they’ve enabled people to see – one that doesn’t resemble anything in our everyday visual experience. It’s described as an intensely saturated ...

It operates at an even smaller scale than most subatomic behaviors, with potential for the miniaturization of quantum ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...

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After analyzing nearly 1,800 brain autopsies from participants classified as either never, moderate, heavy, or former ...

W hen Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...