Over a decade ago, NASA launched two probes to investigate the Van Allen belts —two rings of high-energy particles that encircle the Earth and protect it from harmful solar storms and cosmic radiation ...

The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, revolutionized naval warfare ...

Fifty years ago the 1967 STP-Paxton Turbocar failed at the Indy 500. Mitch Feinberg Fifty years ago, the future rolled onto the grid at the Indianapolis 500. That future was low and wide and electric ...

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible ...

"Pokémon Fossil Museum" in Chicago compares "fossil Pokémon" from the popular franchise to the real-world creatures they're based on ...

Scientists have identified a strange early crocodile relative that may have looked somewhat like a flightless bird ...

Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...

Players from the University of Sydney and McGill University grapple over the quaffle during the 2014 Quidditch World Cup in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Richard Ellis/Demotix/Corbis France just beat ...

Around one-third of Americans take multivitamins, but researchers don't quite understand how they affect people's health. Galina Zhigalova via Getty Images Around one in three adults in the United ...

Parts of the park are awash in wildflowers, from the cheery yellow blooms of desert gold to the bright purple clusters of sand verbena, along with many other species ...

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...