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Was Head-Binding an Ancient Way to Get Ahead?

For some cultures, the practice of cranial deformation may have offered individuals a path to privilege later in their lives.

A reassessment of the iconic species has “some dramatic implications for how we view giraffe conservation across Africa,” a new

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty.

The 29th moon found to be orbiting the solar system’s 7th planet is about six miles wide.

Rare footage of spectral bats, known also as great false vampire bats, revealed animals with a cuddly, social side.

The rare blast peeled back the inner layers of a dying star, offering clues to how the elements that make

Streaked shearwaters keep a very regular rhythm throughout their daily foraging flights, shedding about 5 percent of their body mass

New research outlines how the savvy blue dasher lives happily in storm drains and park ponds others flee.

In 1978, Jerry Slocum assembled the first International Puzzle Party in his living room. Now it’s a global event.

Astronomers had hoped to observe an atmosphere on one of the seven planets known to orbit Trappist-1, a red dwarf