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Here's everything you need to know about Blue Origin's launch of William Shatner and his crew on the New Shepard spacecraft on Oct. 12, 2021.

The answer to what makes the human brain unique may lie in junk DNA.

People whose blood pressure is elevated but still falls within the normal range are at increased risk of accelerated brain aging, researchers report.

It's often said Earth's resources are finite. This is true enough. But shift your gaze skyward for a moment. Up there, amid the stars, lurks an invisible bonanza of epic proportions. Many of the materials upon which mode...

Some of the most common and unlikely sci-fi tropes could one day be science fact.

It's often assumed that birds are the only animals that sing. But these other divas of the animal kingdom prove otherwise.