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It's no secret that, embedded in modern Japanese culture is a work ethic that, at least to western eyes, borders on the pathological....

For the two years that I lived and worked in Hollywood, California, I steadfastly refused to buy a car or drive: a position considered...

In a breakthrough that will have science fiction fans drawing comparisons to The Martian, Dutch researchers from Wageningen University...

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir made history today in the first all-female spacewalk, USA Today reports. They left...

ESO Science ReleaseAstronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time observed that a fast radio burst passed...

An amateur astronomer has discovered a comet that is the second-ever interstellar visitor to our solar system, according to...

There's a verse from Genesis – the book in the Bible, not the project involving legendary drummer Phil Collins – that I frequently...

Science press release: ESA/Hubble.With data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere...

Old age may be dignified, but aging is anything but. The steady onslaught of time and gravity spares no one. There is no escaping it....

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a dwarf star, dubbed TOI-270, with three exoplanets – TOI 270B,...

I don't hate insects. They can be a domestic nuisance, certainly, and some spread disease on a scale that exterminates human life...

NASA announced last night that their much-discussed Dragonfly project which plans to deliver a quadcopter drone to the surface of...

It's interesting that humans – a weak, fragile, superstitious species – can be so nonchalant about the rising oceans and the...

Today NASA announced that the ISS is open – officially and unironically – for business and pleasure. The International Space...

Two young exoplanets have been directly imaged cutting a swath through the protoplanetary disc surrounding a newborn star, according...

Jupiter’s trademark red storm is breathing its last. An astronomical landmark as iconic as Saturn’s rings, recent photographs have...

The tide has turned. The veil of silence has been pierced. The vast web of conspiracy has finally been torn asunder. Well, not quite,...

Newly developed acoustic technology will use the microphones built into Tactical Communication and Protective Systems (TCAPS) – the...

It's strange to think that we'll likely see the first human colonies on Mars – a planet that appears as a tiny rust-colored dot in...

Here's a fun fact that your great-great-great-great grandchildren will be choking on, assuming humanity survives that long: the...