Science

There are, at last count, nine different medals you can earn at the Comrades Marathon, a historic 55-mile race that runs between the South African cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg....

AUSTIN, Texas—A drone without a GPS signal is virtually useless, drifting listlessly with the wind until connection is re-established or it crashes. But a geospatial intelligence company has developed software...

Forget everything you’ve heard about mental decline starting in your thirties. A new study suggests your brain may keep getting sharper well into your forties, allowing for a much higher...

Plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time, but researchers at Northwestern University may have found a new solution. Their newly developed method can break down...

Quantum physics has always challenged our understanding of reality, but a new breakthrough is pushing the limits even further. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have created a new...

Remember those futuristic dreams of flying cars we saw in “The Jetsons”?  Well, they might be closer than you think.  CycloTech, an Austrian aviation company, is turning heads with its...

Saturn’s iconic rings will seem to “disappear” for a couple of days starting this weekend — at least from our vantage point on Earth. The rings won’t actually vanish, but...

Two California researchers said Friday that a U.S. government health publication instructed them to remove data on sexual orientation from that had been accepted for publication. The researchers also said...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of Cambridge challenges...

The Tuolumne County Public Health department on Wednesday confirmed two measles cases a day after it opened an investigation into the possible infections. The department said the cases involved an...