In August 1993, seven hikers climbed the popular tourist destination, Khamar-Daban mountain. Only one witness would survive.

It all boils down to the apparent brightness of an object, or in astronomical parlance, its apparent magnitude. There are ...

"This raises a disturbing prospect—a Kardashev Type III metasociety may annihilate planetary systems as it expands to ...

The research, supported by the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, shows that even an experiment with a clear mission in particle physics can often find something unplanned. This was also ...

For any Gen Zers in the audience, a filing cabinet is an archaic piece of office furniture that was used by your ancestors in ...

The rare finding was made by a team at Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum, in the UK, who uncovered the surprisingly complete handprint on the bottom of a clay model sculpted into the shape of ...

G obi bears are the most endangered of Earth’s eight bear species. Just 40 individuals are thought to be left surviving in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, a place of extreme temperatures and little water ...

A lligators aren’t picky eaters. Given half a chance, they will consume all kinds of fish, birds, turtles, small mammals, and ...

In Khao Luang National Park, a trail camera has recorded footage of an Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii), sometimes called Temminck’s cat, in honor of the zoologist Coenraa ...

Supermassive black holes, sitting at the core of galaxies, are known to be active and emit a lot of X-rays. Finding one way ...

At first sight, sharks and rays appear to determine sex much like mammals do, but they’ve found a different way, and been ...