Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

Editor's note: This story contains descriptions and images of animal mutilation that some readers may find disturbing. HARNEY COUNTY, Ore. (KTVZ) — For generations, stories of cattle mutilations have ...

The Supreme Court's ruling was almost preordained, given the years-long campaign by conservatives to demonize transgender ...

At the Supreme Court, the unfounded fear of boys masquerading as girls in youth sports rolled the clock back on gender ...

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians than like creatures dreamed up for a Hollywood blockbuster. These eight ...

Picture the bottom of a warm Jurassic sea, roughly where southern France sits today, 160 million years before anyone built a road or planted a vineyard. Something impossibly spindly picks its way ...

A “self-sustaining civilization” on Mars depends on human reproduction there, a little studied subject. Credit: SpaceX concept The mission of SpaceX and founder Elon Musk is to make humanity ...

Discover the origin and purpose of the structures of living things, from why baboons have swollen bottoms to the ...

A silver-cheeked pufferfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus), an invasive and toxic species increasingly found in Greek waters. Credit: Flickr / Rickard Zerpe / CC BY 2.0 The invasive silver-cheeked ...