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Amazon has everything from massive power stations to ultra-portable solar generators on sale during its biggest sale of the season.

Salamanders like axolotls are champions of regeneration.

A white dwarf probably created a rare ‘second-generation’ planet.

Don’t expect a low-key desk job.

Bone fragments show this yak-like animal likely went extinct about 27,000 years ago.

The new research sheds more light on the evolutionary origins of friendship.

A chopping wound above the eye and more carnage solve a mystery that stumped archeologists for a century.

Y2K was in fact a big deal.

They’re segmented. They’ve got bristles. And sometimes, metallic jaws and detachable rear ends with eyes and a brain.

The recent photographs confirm that jaguars still travel along an important wildlife corridor.

Women don’t necessarily think men with beards are more attractive.

Some were even on the outside of cars, because what baby doesn’t want a view?