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The suit’s aesthetics are partially a nod to ancient Chinese deities. Credit: CCTV While the US remains on track to send humans back to the moon, China isn’t far behind.…

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson will share details of her recent six-month mission aboard the International Space Station in a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 4, at…

Walrus ivory was a popular luxury resource across medieval Europe. Credit: Deposit Photos It’s well established that Viking explorers made it to North America hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus.…

At a motocross track on a ranch outside of Austin, Texas, cows and horses roam freely. They watch unperturbed as motorcycles whiz around them in the dirt, registering mostly disinterest.…

The newly-developed map of the local Universe is based on the motions of 56,000 galaxies, according to a team of astrophysicists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. This map…

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Mount Everest with the Arun River below. Jiaqi Sun and Jingen Dai Earth’s tallest mountain is getting even taller. An eroding river gorge has thrusted Mount Everest  higher, as it…

A team of archaeologists from the University of Chester, Heneb: the Trust for Welsh Archaeology and the Portable Antiquities Scheme has uncovered the ruins of a Roman settlement and a…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! And happy autumn. I hope you’re enjoying some lovely crisp sweater weather wherever you are right now. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.…

Our bodies and brains are capable of some pretty amazing things, but the how of much of it has become obscured over the years due to folklore, superstition, and old-timey…