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It sounds like the kind of story you tell to scare small children today: "If you're a naughty child, a giant bird will come and eat...

Ufologist Scott C. Waring calls it  "Absolute proof that aliens are active in Mexico," which is a pretty bold claim for (probably)...

And all this time we thought the people of Pompeii and the surrounding areas got off relatively easy in 79 AD — sure, being covered...

For years, astronomers have struggled to find what exactly is causing the mysterious phenomenon known as "fast radio bursts:" the...

Modeling the birth, growth, and death of cells with computers is a tradition that goes all the way back to "Conway's Game of Life," a...

When it comes to the struggle against climate change, wind farms have been the poster child for low-impact, environmentally friendly...

SpaceX has been hitting a lot of milestones lately: the company passed a battery of NASA tests with flying colors, announced its first...

While astronomers are still trying to pin down the existence of Planet Nine lurking somewhere beyond our solar system, scientists...

Ever since missions like Kepler and K2 launched, the discovery of new exoplanets has become a little less exciting. Sure they're...

The most exciting part of any Antiques Roadshow is the part where some nice old couple finds out the worn rocking chair they kept in...

Considering the recent air leak in the ISS, the three astronauts who set out for Earth yesterday aboard the Soyuz MS-08 were probably...

A new discovery has destroyed astronomers' hopes of accounting for what it is or how it's connected to the observable universe. The...

Step by step, astronomers are growing tantalizingly close to finding the solar system's long-rumored 'Planet Nine' lurking somewhere...

Photosynthesis, according to every grade school science teacher ever, is the process plants and other organisms use to convert light...

Everyone has something they love about Fall: the changing of the leaves, the sweater weather, or the 1,300-foot wide, skull-shaped...

When Elon Musk announced that SpaceX was going to start crewed missions to Mars in the 2020s, it was a cause for excitement and...

In Westeros, Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane is famous for being stupidly strong, but we didn't expect the real-life...

A few years ago, the Planck survey gave scientists a picture of where dark matter might be lurking across the universe. That survey...

Earlier this year, the long-standing theory that the "building blocks of life" on Earth were seeded by meteorites got a big boost when...

One of the most-hyped fears about the Large Hadron Collider before it was first turned on was the theory that it might inadvertently...