Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

Editor's note: This story contains descriptions and images of animal mutilation that some readers may find disturbing. HARNEY COUNTY, Ore. (KTVZ) — For generations, stories of cattle mutilations have ...

The Supreme Court's ruling was almost preordained, given the years-long campaign by conservatives to demonize transgender ...

At the Supreme Court, the unfounded fear of boys masquerading as girls in youth sports rolled the clock back on gender ...

Picture the bottom of a warm Jurassic sea, roughly where southern France sits today, 160 million years before anyone built a road or planted a vineyard. Something impossibly spindly picks its way ...

Revisiting the past can leave the reader with a range of reactions, including both bemusement at then-embryonic developments and amazement at the accuracy of forecast extrapolations. After reading the ...

A “self-sustaining civilization” on Mars depends on human reproduction there, a little studied subject. Credit: SpaceX concept The mission of SpaceX and founder Elon Musk is to make humanity ...

Frogs are often perceived as basic green or brown amphibians, but some of these pond dwellers look like they hopped right out of a science-fiction movie. They feature neon colors, transparent bodies, ...

Discover the origin and purpose of the structures of living things, from why baboons have swollen bottoms to the ...

A silver-cheeked pufferfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus), an invasive and toxic species increasingly found in Greek waters. Credit: Flickr / Rickard Zerpe / CC BY 2.0 The invasive silver-cheeked ...