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The Psyche spacecraft, headed to an asteroid with the same name, will explore a metal world thought to be the leftover core of a destroyed planet | Continue reading
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The pioneer of bioinformatics modeled Earth’s primordial atmosphere with Carl Sagan and made a vast protein database still used today | Continue reading
A new biography explores the remarkable feats of Virginia Hall, a disabled secret agent determined to play her part in the fight against the Nazis | Continue reading
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An estimated 66 tons of feces left behind by climbers is coming out of the deep freeze on North America's highest peak | Continue reading
Joy Milne first noticed a “sort of woody, musky odor” emanating from her husband some 12 years before he was diagnosed with the degenerative disorder | Continue reading
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Inside Iraq's most notorious prison, an Army interrogator came face to face with a shocking truth about the war—and himself | Continue reading
10 prominent English writers answered a 39-question survey detailing their opinions of literary predecessors and peers | Continue reading
Lake Elsinore has seen tens of thousands of people descend on Walker Canyon to see the recent superbloom, overwhelming local resources | Continue reading
NASA didn’t have two properly fitting and space-ready suits for both women | Continue reading
The dolphins' expert, deliberate handling of the terrorized puffer fish implies that this is not their first time at the hallucinogenic rodeo | Continue reading
The genetic footprint of a | Continue reading
Before the advent of geology as a science, the canyon was avoided. Now the popular park is celebrating its centennial year | Continue reading
In a new book on space exploration, Smithsonian curator emeritus Roger D. Launius predicts boots on the Red Planet ground by the 2030s | Continue reading
The aspartame myth goes back to a letter circulating on the '90s internet | Continue reading
Celia Fiennes traveled and wrote about her adventures—including a bit of life advice | Continue reading
A new study investigates the historical factors leading up to the emergence of pork prohibition | Continue reading
Two inventors turned a failed experiment into an irresistibly poppable product that revolutionized the shipping industry | Continue reading
The brains of people who get chills when the right song comes on are wired differently than others | Continue reading
The DeepSqueak software translates the high-pitched communication into sonograms, which can be analyzed to determine what mice and rats are saying | Continue reading
According to models of stellar evolution, certain types of stars need longer than the universe has existed to form | Continue reading
In The First Conspiracy, thriller writer Brad Meltzer uncovers a real-life story too good to turn into fiction | Continue reading
An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time | Continue reading
Jack London State Historic Park, home to the rough and tumble troublemaker with a prolific pen | Continue reading
The images date to the 19th and 20th centuries, the waning days of the once-powerful empire | Continue reading
A new study has found that 24 genes show similar activity in the brain tissue of five species stick with one mate at a time | Continue reading
A simple contest of sci-fi strategy, ‘Spacewar!’ ushered in what is now a 140 billion dollar industry | Continue reading
Bringing the sense of touch to virtual reality experiences could impact everything from physical rehabilitation to online shopping | Continue reading
Many national parks remain understaffed during the government shutdown while instances of vandalism and destruction rise | Continue reading
Over thousands of years, native people played a strong role in molding the ecology of this vast wilderness | Continue reading
Today, archaeologists are still debating just how old the hoard is—and what it tells us about the end of the Roman Empire in Britain | Continue reading
Museum buildings and research centers shuttered, most federal employees furloughed, while excepted Zoo staff continue care of the animals | Continue reading
Every year, billions of male chicks are euthanized by the egg and poultry industry, but new tech could end the chick culling | Continue reading
Campaign is expected to launch across the entire U.K. by 2023 | Continue reading
In 1991, Congress authorized $650 million to develop the technology that would make driverless cars a reality | Continue reading
His contributions to mathematics and electrical engineering made him one of the most beloved and instantly recognizable men of his time. | Continue reading
How the rotating tool became the circular table that circled the globe | Continue reading
A simple contest of sci-fi strategy, ‘Spacewar!’ ushered in what is now a 140 billion dollar industry | Continue reading
Small as they are, bumblebee brains are surprisingly capable of mastering novel, complex tasks | Continue reading