An international team of researchers reports the result of an incredible experiment performed on Mars. It had never been done ...

Neanderthals had a PR disaster in the century after their discovery in 1856. Up until fairly recently, they were dismissed as ...

Bizarrely – or maybe not, considering what can be a Guinness World Record these days – there is even a world record for the ...

Hiding in a museum collection lies what may be the world’s oldest known cannabis plant fossil. Dated to the Lower Eocene – a ...

Japan’s intense corporate culture is so draining and competitive that a term has emerged to describe "death by overwork": ...

The film was one of 10 found in an old, battered wooden trunk that belonged to the great-grandfather of Bill McFarland, who ...

From having a permanent lava lake that stays red-hot in winter, to spewing out thousands of dollars’ worth of gold daily, ...

The apparent absence of gravity affects both the body and mind in profound ways; new research shows that astronauts' minds ...

The spacecraft is nuclear-powered: it uses a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Decaying plutonium produces heat, and ...