Since 43 percent of humans are currently estimated to live in rural areas, it’s likely that the current world population ...

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While terrifying, there's an overlooked NASA spacewalk which looks equally terrifying to untrained Earth-dwellers. In 1984, ...

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A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...

A demonstration of satellite quantum encryption was performed using stations at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and ...

Discovered in the McGraths Flat fossil site in New South Wales, Australia, the new fossil is a freshwater smelt belonging to the order Osmerifiromes, the first of its kind to be found in Australia.

The patient was also the first person in the world to survive with the total artificial heart for over 100 days.

When geologists were sent to investigate, they confirmed that this wasn’t old news – they had stumbled upon fresh activity. “ ...

Vaccines do not, cannot, and have not ever caused autism. There is not a shred of scientific evidence to support the belief ...