Many of the gravesites that pockmark the north and east of the country are believed to contain the victims of atrocities committed during the civil war. Caught between warring rebel fighters and the ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...

When a meteor flashes across the night sky, it’s more than a beautiful streak of light. It’s a delivery from deep space—an ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

"To live a life that is aligned with your true self, one has the duty to put in the effort to recognize what being true to ...

A CNN journalist take his appreciation of nature’s restorative benefits a step further and tries out grounding, or walking ...

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

Sprint cars are the rawest of racing spectacles—nasty, vicious, and short open-wheel racers designed asymmetrically to turn ...

The new space station crew includes American Chris Williams, who holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and is a board-certified medical ...