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Keeping up with the droneses

That’s great news for astronomers.

To improve its virtual-reality simulators, the military wants to incorporate smell. For help, it's turning to Hollywood

Cyborg animals, psychotropics and flying lasers are just some of the terrifying weapons government labs have cooked up over the years

The new amphibian is definitely not a Harry Potter snack.

Sunscreen, hats, and sunglasses are your best defense.

Here's what you need to know about the pandemic this week.

Missile trains, atomic planes, orbiting H-bombs and more hypothetical Cold War technologies cooked up by the United States and the Soviet Union.

A top secret preview of the weapons in Ghost Fleet, a new novel about our future war with China

Rain, rain, go away

Something to give thanks for

Do you want to build a snowflake?

Our most recent ancestor shrank into Homo floresiensis after millennia of isolation

By keeping the people down

Also reveals that he was at risk for ulcers

Wildlife corridors aren’t a new idea, but taking human resistance into account makes them much more effective.

The clouds, birds, and trees all tell their own meteorological stories.

The $250 million investment could benefit drivers, hunters, wildlife, and more.

New radiocarbon measurements from the silty bottom of a Japanese lake could help scientists pinpoint when Neanderthals died out.