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A weird polka-dotted blob that washed ashore in North Carolina has finally been identified.

The researchers used TV viewing as a proxy for sedentary behavior.

A hidden image in an ornately illustrated 15th-century prayer book reveals that the duke of Brittany at the time painted over an image of hi...

China has released the first photographs taken by its Zhurong rover, which touched down on Mars late on Friday (May 14) as part of the count...

From the beginning of the universe to the present day, it's one of the few things we regard as regular and unchanging. But is it really so c...

Tardigrades, those adorable, chubby water bears, are notoriously hardy — and they can even survive being shot out of a gun, up to a point.

The universe could be teaching itself how to evolve into a better, more stable, cosmos. That's the far-out idea proposed by a team of scient...

There are hundreds of different breeds of horse, from the slender Thoroughbred racehorses, to the massive shire workhorses, to the itty-bitt...

How did Frederick Douglass, an enslaved man from Maryland, become an international celebrity, author and abolitionist hero?

We could soon start getting answers to some vexing UFO questions.

The skeleton of a Roman-era skeleton found near Mount Vesuvius may be from the famous rescue mission led by Pliny the Elder in A.D. 79.

A sun-studying spacecraft nabbed its first footage of a solar outburst before its science mission has officially begun.

A giant carved into an English hill could be a pagan reaction to Christian domination, but scientists think it is more likely the giant rece...

This image is an example of the Munker-White illusion.

The U.S. Space Force launched a giant rocket Tuesday (May 18) carrying a satellite that will circle Earth's equator and alert the ground of...

Every labor story is different, but there are definitely signs that can let you know if you are in the early stages of labor.

Tooth sensitivity is a common dental problem that involves discomfort or pain in teeth when encountering certain substances and temperatures...

Statistics tell us that individuals are most likely to be somewhere around the middle part of their life. The same could be true of the huma...

The Milky Way galaxy glistens over the launchsite of Europe's new heavy-lift rocket in these stunning timelapse videos.

An almost 400-year-old silver coin found in a field in Maryland suggests that the remains of a nearby fort are all that's left of one of the...

Pack your bathing costume — our solar neighborhood is much wetter than you think.

Approximately 60 U.S. personnel stationed around the world have complained of mysterious neurological symptoms that may be linked to the use...

The genome of the plankton Symbiodinium microadriaticum is arranged in a very peculiar way.

Megalodon was the largest shark and one of the largest fish on record. It went extinct about 2.6 million years ago.

The bizarre creature is normally found at ocean depths of around 3,000 feet.