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Amazing new plane keeps catching on fire. Here are the questions you've been asking and the answers you need.

We've all seen the video of Yasiin Bey, formerly Mos Def, undergoing the force-feeding procedure used at Guantanamo Bay Prison. Here's what such a procedure could do to your health.

The answers to the most nagging, fascinating, and bizarre questions of the summer movie season.

Blast off!

The solarclave could sterilize medical devices in areas without reliable electricity.

The water tornado touched down in Tampa Bay this week, and some brave soul got video.

It could fit 20 Sydney Opera Houses inside it and has its own artificial sun.

The unregulated, slightly terrifying frontier of personal flight

The science of how much we suck

New research suggests our Neanderthal cousins might have been super chatty.

Seeing without sight

Have we reached peak lemur?

Looks a bit like home!

It's got a three-foot bell and a whopping 20-foot-long body. Eeeep.

It'll store and collect samples to (hopefully) one day return to Earth.

We ask the experts how today's technology would've influenced the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War itself.

People in the control group always realize they're just playing Tetris for hours.

How the decades-old concept of "crashworthiness" saves lives

You may not know it, but peer pressure influences what you sound like when you sneeze.

It might well be related to a very common modern lizard--except it's teeny-tiny.