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Autumn is here, and that means the risk of hitting deer on rural roads and highways is rising, especially around dusk and during a full moon. Deer cause over 1...

Fossilized footprints discovered in New Mexico indicate that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ago, researchers reported Thursday.The first footprints were found in a dry lake...

The Guinness book of world records states that Michel Lotito died at age 57, of natural causes. But not before this competitive eater had consumed 18 bicycles, 15 supermarket carts,...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Chapter 1: an ugly place Brady Huggett: Chapter 1: an ugly place Stan Crooke told me something once that I've never forgotten....

NASA’s newest Mars rover has completed its first sample grab, tucking away the tube of rock for return to Earth.

Chase Doran Brownstein from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and the Stamford Museum and Nature Center has described two new dinosaurs — a herbivorous hadrosaur...

When it comes to the climate emergency, the scientific consensus is clear: human activity is heating Earth more rapidly now than at any point in the last 2,000 years. This...

Russia is the world's largest wheat exporter, with 20 percent of the world's wheat trade. Combine harvesters that can drive themselves using technology from Russian company Cognitive Pilot are helping...

This article appeared in the September/October 2021 issue of Discover magazine as "Death Defying." Become a subscriber for unlimited access to our archive.At the end of Plato’s Republic, the philosopher Socrates shares the myth...

Photos of 30-day old, mature wild type Arabidopsis leaf and 145-day old Arabidopsis leaf with down-regulated CIN-TCP and KNOX-II genes. Credit: Krishna Reddy Challa and Monalisha Rath A recent study,...