Historian Valerie Neal reveals how women astronauts transformed NASA and redefined what it means to explore space.

At the La Tejería fossil site near El Castellar in eastern Spain, paleontologists recovered 14 tail vertebrae and a ...

On a winter walk through Alaska’s forests, you might step over what looks like a dead frog, locked stiff beneath the leaves.

Three monoliths are still standing today. They stretch across about 174 meters of lowland farmland, with the tallest rising 6 ...

And yes, the human neurons worked inside the mouse brain. The transplanted tissue became part of the animals’ nervous system, ...

For two thousand years, Rome’s roads have carried almost as much legend as traffic. They were straight, we are told. They ...

In Greek mythology, Daphne flees Apollo’s unwanted pursuit and escapes him only by transforming into a laurel tree. Artists ...

Memristors — short for “memory resistors” — are the brainlike workhorses of neuromorphic computing, capable of learning from ...

A study of nearly one million UK adults found that people who preferred their tea or coffee “very hot” had about three times ...

Settled by Mormon pioneers in the second half of the 19th century, Moab was still a sleepy town by the middle of the 20th—a ...

The tiny swirls and vortices are called Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, and this is the first observational confirmation that ...

Pluto’s hazy, multilayered atmosphere is thinning out as it enters the coldest part of the Plutonian year. Above, the ...