In the US state park of Robbers Cave, Oklahoma, Carolyn Wood Sherif is standing squinting up at the sun. The two wooden ...

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Because their brain works at such a different speed and on a higher level, high-IQ people are usually obsessed with 11 things ...

In a clip from the BBC Archive, people share their homespun remedies for the flu in the late 1950s. We put a few to the test.

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

Physicists studying active matter — materials that can use their own internal energy to respond to forces — have uncovered ...