NASA just announced a crazy new mission with an incredibly ambitious schedule: the agency wants to fly the first ...

Modern medicine has not only extended life, it has also reshaped the very nature of aging. Over the past century, life expectancy has increased substantially across much of the world, driven by ...

As an adult adoptee, I’ve borne witness to the stress my parents endured once they signed my paperwork and brought me home to another foster kid and a much smarter German Shepherd. It would take years ...

My family is full of risk-takers. Or so goes the family lore. My father, who started riding motorcycles when he was 12, almost died zooming around a racetrack in his 40s. For many years, he was an ...

The Lockheed U-2 is one of the most groundbreaking aircraft ever devised. In the mid-1950s, when commercial aircraft were flying at 35,000 feet and jet fighters could maybe push 60,000 feet, the U-2 ...

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How the WHO Cancer Research Agency Misinforms Regulation and Litigation is a wonderful brief on how the International Agency ...

U.S. teens report far less anabolic steroid use than they did two decades ago, but creatine use has risen rapidly in recent ...

We have been on a years-long campaign of satellite remote sensing of the vast desert landscapes in Eastern Sudan. This involved using satellite aerial imagery to systematically and ...

Your local tavern may seem like a very modern part of our contemporary world, but it’s probably not that different from its predecessors from 2,000 years ago. There are roughly 150 taberna ...

If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, we may be picturing the wrong kind of encounter. Most of us imagine other beings as ...