(via NOVA PBS) Space warfare is no longer science fiction. Explore the tech behind it all— from laser "dazzling" systems that can blind enemy satellites, to missile systems that can obliterate them.

What we know about human history is only a fraction of the full story. Much of the rest is like dark matter, invisible to us.

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Years later, with millions dead, there is still no definitive answer to the origins of COVID-19. Like the Texas Killing ...

A laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, Russia, has died just days after falling ill ...

For decades, the idea has been dismissed as too strange to take seriously. But experiments involving microtubules, ...

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For years, experts have tried to predict how fast artificial intelligence would progress, and they've been wrong again and ...

Childhood abuse leaves a scar on the brain, a new neuroimaging study led by UCLA psychologists has shown. The researchers found associations between the severity of different maltreatment exposures an ...

Popular culture often depicts people with psychopathy as cold, emotionless and hollow, but a recent University of Mississippi study found that the language associated with psychopathic traits is more ...

People who are overweight or obese when they are diagnosed with dementia are likely to live longer than those in a normal weight range, according to a new study published in the Journal of Alzheimer&r ...

It is that time of year again, when the Twitter crowd erupts about “Who is going to win the Nobel Prize this year?” Unfortunately, there seems to be a real disconnect between the process, ...