Creator Gary Larson often used historical humor in his classic Far Side cartoons, occasionally lampooning known events with ...

Cats are quicker than babies to associate a picture of a word with its corresponding picture, new research shows.

Just before midnight on July 19, 1952, a Washington National Airport air traffic controller spotted seven unusual objects on radar—first hovering about 15 miles south-southwest of the city, later ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...

The building used to be a boat-assembly plant, which made the festivities oddly apt, since tattoos have always thrived on ...

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The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

But for a couple of hours on the morning of November 6, the term “ darkest timeline ” trended in Google searches, and several physicists posted musings on social media about whether we were actually ...

Why is the expansion of our universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...

How do you feel about automated vehicles? What effects do you think they will have on your generation? Read this article and post your comments and questions for Matt Richtel by Nov. 14. By The ...

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Some scientific discoveries are so mind-blowing, they sound like they belong in a fantasy novel! For example, scientists have found tiny creatures called tardigrades that can survive extreme ...