Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a ...

Launched in December 2021 after three decades of development and at a cost of some $10 billion, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the biggest investments ever made in astronomy. That ...

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In 1908, a group of Catholic priests discovered what looked like the skeletal remains of a man buried inside a cave in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a commune in south-central France. The nearly complete ...

The sky above us is a complex ecosystem, just like the land and sea. A new field of research is bringing a fresh understanding of the birds, bugs and other species that live there Dustin Partridge of ...

National Spider Man Day is coming up on Friday! And you can celebrate right here in Chicago at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. The museum is currently hosting Marvel’s Spider-Man: Beyond ...

"Zebrahub" is an atlas of cells in developing zebrafish embryos, and scientists say it will help us learn about our own biology, too. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Even with all our amazing technology and super smart scientists, there are still some things about Earth that remain a mystery. We've climbed mountains, explored oceans, and even flown into space to ...

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Steve Spangler reveals the secrets of color, with amazing experiments you can do at home. He’ll show you how to create clouds of color with do-it-yourself rainbow powders. Plus, what ink manufacturers ...

Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it ...

At up to 10 feet in diameter, the floating leaves of giant water lilies (genus Victoria) are the largest on Earth. In South American waterways, they thrive and crowd out other plants. Some are sturdy ...