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Along with collapsing buildings, flying debris, and stampedes of fleeing residents, various studies have blamed the ...

World famous climbers give back to the local Nepali community through mountaineering training at the Khumbu Climbing Center.

A buzz that rocked the state all summer sent geologists on a labyrinthine chase—and unearthed new mysteries about how energy ...

By Mary Anne Potts; Photograph courtesy Red Bull Photo Files New York City is a lot of things—outdoors hot spot is not generally one of them. Last night, however, there was no cooler place to be than ...

Not only do women get more migraines than men, but a new study shows they also experience them for a longer duration.

Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

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Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

Can the cruise industry hit its carbon-neutral targets? A new generation of ultra-low emission vessels may hold the answer.

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ...