The people of Kiruna are moving their entire town brick-by-brick
From a higher vocabulary to mastering mouth motion, the lilting babble seems to play a key role in helping babies process language
A major earthquake will cause plenty of destruction along the West Coast, but it won’t look like it does in the movies
It's scary what we don't know about the lasting effects after a knock to the noggin
A 430,000-year-old skull discovered in a Spanish cave bears evidence of deliberate, lethal blunt force trauma
The space agency has announced the suite of experiments that will fly on a mission to the icy moon of Jupiter
To get the critically endangered Madagascar spider tortoises to breed successfully took both tenacity and a whole lot of luck
Warmer waters are eating away at protective ice shelves, letting glaciers flow into the sea
Java sparrows amp up their tunes with acoustic beak taps synchronized with chirps
When the New Horizons spacecraft races by the quasi-planetary body, Alan Stern will have finally met his match
The most distinctive human feature might be that bony protrusion that made Jay Leno famous
A powerful earthquake in Italy killed hundreds of people—and set in motion a legal battle and scientific debate that has kept seismologists on edge
He's famous for getting dangerously close to his fearsome charges, but what can Kevin Richardson teach us about ethical conservation—and ourselves?
3.3 million-year-old artifacts predate the human genus
New research indicates why the slithery beast's body appears pretty much as it did 110 million years ago
Are hyenas the most misunderstood animals in the wild? They're intelligent, have a sophisticated social order, and their famous laugh isn't even a laugh
Updates from our far-flung spacecraft
It's old blood, not old bones, that makes fracture healing difficult among the elderly
Now in its 30th year, the arachnid-equivalent of the Westminster Dog Show showcases the strange beauty of an eight-legged obsession
Mysterious star clusters and Europa in a can feature in our picks for this week's best space images
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