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A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

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Wonder offered a simple test. In the smart-glasses boom, the most persuasive tools aren’t about perfect sight, but day-to-day ...

Genetics, audio processing and environment can all impact how our brains connect sounds to the symbols we use to read ...

If you're a reader of Astronomy, you recognize the name Alan Stern. Through the years, he's written numerous stories for the ...

A pesky “motivation brake” may control when we can be bothered to do something, and when we’d rather put it off.

Surprisingly, the magic of snowflakes often begins with dust in the air. All it takes is for a cold drop of water to freeze ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

The team excavating in the west Nile Delta have discovered a necropolis and industrial complex dating from the Roman Period.

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

The very, very long-lived Greenland sharks were long thought to be practically blind. But a new study finds that they not ...