A multidecadal blip in temperature and rainfall patterns may have spurred the rise of the Mongol Empire
Apollo 17 took off forty years ago today
Reports from Doha don't provide much hope that any progress has been made on the increasingly urgent issue of global climate change
The fittest kids on the playground are also the ones who excel in the classroom at standardized tests and good grades
Research shows that lions are quickly disappearing across Africa's once-thriving Savannah due to human population growth and massive land use conversion
Want to keep your enemies at bay? How about throwing a jar of scorpions at them?
NASA scientists created global composite images using cloud-free nights to reveal an unprecedented look at how our planet appears at night
And city birds are stuffing their nests with cigarette butts to poison potential parasites
When a person lies, the area on and around the nose increases in temperature, giving away the anxiety lurking below the surface of an otherwise cool facade
Scientists have figured out a way to determine the age of your lobster
Frogfish are really good at blending in with their environment - particularly with the sponges that they live on. But they're also crazy fast hunters
Being narcissistic also tends to make you more physically attractive
Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
The past 5 to 10 thousand years have seen a surge in human genetic diversity
Birds do it, butterflies do it, and now, we know that Galapagos giant tortoises do it, too - but why?
Conservationists and divers alike are on edge over a mysterious disease sweeping through coral reefs in Kauai
Whale meat elicits a "meh" response from young Japanese these days, but global citizens continue to cry foul
From a frozen Antarctic lake, researchers pulled samples teeming with bacteria
The COP18 climate change conference is going on in Doha, Qatar until December 7th
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