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Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...

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Low levels of vitamin D seem to raise your risk of heart attack but scientists are still figuring out why—and whether ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

When the Cambodian women’s wheelchair basketball team headed to their first major international competition, they found wins ...

The U.S. Surgeon General has called for adding cancer warnings to alcohol labels—as scientific evidence mounts that even moderate drinking may be more harmful than we thought. A glass of red wine a ...