The “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary celebration is NBC’s most-watched prime-time entertainment telecast in five years, reaching nearly 15 million viewers. Sunday ...

If you live in an older house, you may have noticed that some electrical outlets have three prongs, while others have only ...

Did you know that a cat went to space before many humans did? In 1963, Félicette, a stray cat from France, became the first feline astronaut, surviving a suborbital flight and providing crucial data ...

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.

So why evolve bright warning signals when camouflage could also deter predators? The answer lies in the local predator ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.” ...

P rojections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

Our Parks Our Open Space and Aspenites for Action are supporting Referendums 1 and 2, respectively. The two groups advocate ...