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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 …