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The hellish inferno took five hours to get under control.

Just don't turn it into a family tradition.

Weed isn't going to help you win the Olympic Gold.

The technology that surveys our skies isn't designed to spot and identify everything that flies.

Conventional wisdom has it that aliens should be either everywhere, or nowhere. A new model suggests they can be both.

It’s at least as terrifying as it sounds.

We all may have started out as babies, but some things about them are absolutely alien.

The Department of Defense wants to scale up how it uses artificial intelligence, and it wants everyone to be able to trust those algorithms.

"We will go wherever the data takes us."

After a 70-year effort, the WHO confirmed the country has maintained zero cases for more than four years.

As cycling becomes more popular, shortages will likely be more common.

Another version of the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana has exploded in popularity—but it might be short-lived.

The discovery means astronomers have now caught all three major types of gravitational waves.

If you hate repetitive work, these apps are definitely for you.

The trees not only filter waste, but benefit from the extra nutrients.

Temperatures are slowly subsiding, but the damage has been done.

How to build your own Winogradsky column

The physics of boomerang flight

Air conditioning isn’t your only weapon against the heat.

It turns out the bubonic plague wasn't nearly as contagious—or gruesome—in the Neolithic era.