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The saying "weak in the knees" may be figurative for many, but can it really happen to people?

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time.

A helmet up for auction in London is a well-preserved example of the "Corinthian" helmets used by many hoplite warriors.

How does creeping stress ignite a cataclysmic earthquake? A new study has answers.

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma. Here's how it affects the brain...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four...

Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Austral...

"Recycling" an already transplanted organ could help save lives, but the procedure comes with additional risks, physicians say.

There's an idea that larger muscles burn a lot more energy while at rest. But is that true?

Research suggests that alcohol causes cancer through at least five different mechanisms.

Common degus clean themselves and communicate with urine, and they can detach their own tails to escape predators.

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subs...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planet...

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now Spain and the Mi...

Researchers discovered long-lost computer code and used it to resurrect the early chatbot ELIZA.

A doorbell camera recorded a rare video of the moment a meteorite fell outside a home.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

Parents are more likely to favor daughters and more-agreeable children, new research suggests, although the findings may only apply to peopl...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for dis...

Debris from the rocket's explosion was caught on camera by a family vacationing on Grand Turk island.

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

The Aptera Launch Edition EV offers 400 miles of range on a single charge using an electrical output in addition to 40 miles per day powered...

The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the northeast by a pre...

Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed...