With widespread layoffs and diminished funding currently sweeping the scientific community in nearly every field, "Just ...

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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to Houston next April for an event that looks at the science behind famous ...

A U.S. company is proposing to 'sell sunlight after dark,' saying it could help power solar farms and provide access to light ...

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Standing at the edge of Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona feels like peering into another world—a massive bowl carved into the Earth by a visitor from space that arrived with the subtlety of a ...

The same Europe that painted God and Adam white also painted Africa dark — the myth of the “Dark Continent” was the secular echo of the religious lie that holiness and whiteness were the same. These ...

Bats, spiders, toads, and black cats seem to get all the attention around Halloween, with owls often left out of the ...