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The 10-part series is narrated by Tom Hanks with a score by Hans Zimmer – here's how to watch The Americas online, on TV and from anywhere.

Pope Francis is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia — but what is this condition, and why might the pope be particularly vulnerab...

The Savonoski Crater is a round hole in Alaska's Katmai National Park that has defied scientific explanation ever since it was discovered.

NASA has been changing the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in recent days, but the latest shift significantly downgrades the asteroi...

A new report details the bird flu cases of two pet cats in Michigan whose owners work in the dairy industry. Earlier in the month, a data ta...

Indian teenager Aaryan Shulka performs calculations in his head quicker than most people can use a calculator. At a recent event hosted by G...

A bog body discovered in Northern Ireland is actually a young woman, not a teenage boy as previously thought.

How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which reveals 300 potentia...

Scientists reveal a never-before-seen species of leopard-size apex predator that lived in lush forest 30 million years ago.

A woman developed an array of symptoms shortly after returning from a vacation, and parasites turned out to be the culprit.

Excavations at a centuries-old royal palace in Korea have revealed multiple flush toilets, including one that the crown prince likely used.

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NASA increased the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth to 1 in 32, or 3.1%, on Tuesday, but they're now back down to 1 in 67, or 1.5%...

The CGI-fueled documentary explores the extinct species in the Natural History Museum – here's how to watch David Attenborough's Museum Aliv...

A new computer model suggests that the process of evolution can get better at evolving in the face of environmental change.

Only around 500 cases of Norrie disease, a genetic condition, have been reported worldwide.

The tomb of Thutmose II, a pharaoh who ruled about 3,500 years ago, has been discovered west of the Valley of the Kings.

A dead galaxy shouldn't produce bursts of radio light. Yet this 11 billion-year-old one did — throwing scientists for a loop.

A winter storm is hitting the U.S. with record-breaking cold and heavy snow. Is the polar vortex to blame?

The nearly 5,000-year-old fortress in Spain has a much more recent burial dating to the Roman era.

A close-up shot of microplastics resting on a human finger.

Researchers think the Indigenous roads were more about cosmology than traffic.

A man who should have developed early-onset Alzheimer's disease due to a genetic mutation is still symptom-free in his 70s. Scientists are t...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact."

A mysterious bronze spoon unearthed on the Isle of Man is rare evidence of ancient ritual in Europe.