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It's almost impossible to argue that gasoline-powered cars are better for the environment.

Schisms within the church have led to more and more denominations over the millennia.

This dramatic breakup comes after a major crack formed on the shelf in November 2020 and continued to grow.

A new study reveals pirate attacks are more common in waters experiencing destructive and illegal fishing, suggesting the two may be linked.

Scientists using a new technique have uncovered the colorful and once-hidden scenes in paintings of the ancient Etruscans.

Scientists can't agree on why these hills in the Russian Arctic ripple with stripes.

Perseverance has captured a high-definition, 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, which harbored a l...

It has a mutation that may help the coronavirus partially evade COVID-19 vaccines.

The study researchers focused on the spike protein, the structure that allows coronaviruses to bind to and enter human cells.

The latest expedition by divers to the wreck of the Mentor, which sank just off the island of Kythera (also spelled Kithira and Kythira) in...

The blooming process of a moonflower cactus has been captured on video for the first time and was watched by over 400,000 people online.

Hundreds of thousands of viruses can lurk in our guts — but how they impact our bodies is a mystery.

Astronomers spot two highly delayed signals from two different black holes tearing apart stars in their vicinity.

The condiment helps break down the tar in the turtles' digestive tracts.

The seasonal flu shot is a yearly vaccine administered to protect against the flu, or influenza. In the United States, flu shots are recomme...

The moral compass of believers and atheists is calibrated differently.

Colliding dust particles on Mars probably produce static electricity, a new experiment reveals.

Hundreds of people have died at a remote Himalayan lake, and some of them had no obvious reason to be there.

Scientists recently captured video documenting the first reported instance of a fish preying on a newly-hatched baby bird, in a flooded nest...

Two meteor enthusiasts have found a piece of an iron meteorite that fell over Sweden in November 2020.

New research spotlights fluorescence in a jumping rodent known as a springhare.

A lifesaving operation turned tragic when a Michigan woman contracted COVID-19 from her double lung transplant last year and died soon after...

Extremists and dogmatists struggle with certain kinds of cognitive processing, but they also tend to be impulsive and risk-loving.

An excavation in the UK unearthed the Roman-era stone carving of a phallus.

For the first time ever, you can watch video of a rover landing on Mars. It's amazing.