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You can argue for the British, Persians, Romans, Mongols or pretty much any empire you want.

Among the top news today: The US recorded at least 121,000 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, another grim record.

Cytokines help the immune system kill pathogens, but too many cytokines can lead to bad health outcomes and may turn into a "cytokine storm....

Britain's great fox-spider had not been seen since 1993. Turns out, it's been thriving on a military base.

Scientists think they have identified a lava world so dramatic that it might boast a thin regional atmosphere of vaporized rock where it is...

Two large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times as likely to die as people hospitali...

A distant asteroid trailing in the gravitational wake of Mars our moon's long-lost twin.

Levels of the stress hormone cortisol in earwax could be a new way to track anxiety, depression and other medical conditions.

The virus has mutated in mink — as might be expected — but we don't know if those mutations changed the virus significantly.

The researchers say this is the longest anyone has been reported to be contagious with COVID-19 while remaining asymptomatic.

8,000 years ago in Indonesia, a child was buried without their leg and arm bones, a common practice at that time and place.

After long months with no way of making contact with Voyager 2, NASA has finally reestablished communications with the record-setting inters...

Radar technology has revealed exactly where Henry VIII had a traumatic brain injury while jousting.

Early hunter-gatherer women in the ancient Americas hunted big game just as much as men did, a new study suggests.

Now that a yearlong waiting period has ended, the U.S. will formally exit the Agreement.

Here's how the U.S. electoral college came to be.

These antibodies attack cells in such a way as to promote blood clots.

Mark Kelly has won a seat in the U.S. Senate, making him only the fourth NASA astronaut to be elected to Congress.

A brief look at the space policies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

The presidential elections of 1876, 1888, 1960 and 2000 were among the most contentious in American history. Here's why.

The algorithm listens to subtle differences in coughs between healthy people and infected people.

A 2,000-year-old carved gem bears the likeness of Apollo, and it was likely owned by a Jew.

When mantis shrimp find a burrow that's just right, they'll fight brutal battles to steal it.

Excavation crews have unearthed at least 12 unmarked coffins in a Tulsa, Oklahoma graveyard that archaeologists think holds victims of the i...