Childhood media gave us some pretty strange safety briefings. If you were to base your expectations on cartoons, adventure movies, comic books, and spooky TV specials, you’d think adult life would be ...

The hike to Cave 338 is tough. You start at the Monastery of Núria in the eastern Pyrenees, which is already pretty high.

A new analysis by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School suggests that the United States is now ...

A common knee operation meant to erase the nagging pain of a torn meniscus has just failed its longest and toughest test.

Hollywood loves a character who has the perfect total recall of a photographic memory. But it’s not how memory works.

The fossils were pulled from Billeroo Creek, a patch of land east of the Flinders Ranges that is bone-dry today. During the ...

A rocky planet nearly 50 light-years away appears to be airless, dark, and covered in volcanic or weathered rock, according ...

This aerial photo shows the north side of Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord in the aftermath of the 2025 landslide and tsunami. The lighter-colored rock is the exposed surface, where the mountainside collapsed ...

The ground beneath your feet has a travel history. We tend to think the ground is stable and fixed, but in reality, it’s always moving, driven by the relentless forces of plate tectonics. Every year, ...

A crewed expedition to Mars promises to push the absolute limits of human endurance. To grasp the sheer scale of the journey, ...

Bees are better at math than you think. They can count, grasp the concept of zero, and even understand symbolic patterns like ...

The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By ...