This past week, the Supreme Court addressed a case involving a request from two oil companies to drop a lawsuit by two local governments blaming them for climate change damages. The companies are ...

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(via NOVA PBS) Space warfare is no longer science fiction. Explore the tech behind it all— from laser "dazzling" systems that ...

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

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

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

A coastline that has two wildly different but equally valid lengths. Tea leaves that appear to defy the laws of physics. Acid ...

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 ...

Should you ever visit Antarctica, there are two very good reasons to cover your body from head to toe. One – intuitively – is ...