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You’re not going to find a lot of romance in orbital physics. Little objects orbit big objects; big objects orbit bigger objects. The entire galaxy …

Babcock Ranch may look like the many of the other burgeoning housing developments in southwest Florida. Thousands of acres of land in the development will …

Planets can’t talk. And if planets can’t talk, lowly dwarf planets surely can’t either. But if everybody’s favorite dwarf planet could talk, it would have …

Man’s best friend is also man’s oldest friend. Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated, with evidence suggesting they were tamed about 15,000 years …

Exposure to air pollution was shown to increase the risk of obesity and diabetes in rats, according to a new study. Researchers from Duke University …

A previously discovered ax may actually be the oldest such tool in the world, scientists have determined. Archaeologists discovered the ax fragments in Western Australia …

IDEAS Kluger is Editor at Large for TIME. There have been a lot of high-fives and popped corks in Houston in the past 10 days, …

Scientists have confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves more than a century after the concept was first proposed, a dramatic discovery that could change the …

Archaeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a mother cradling a baby in Taiwan, museum officials said Tuesday. The pair have held each other for …

Utilities have operated more or less the same since the electrification of American cities began more than a century ago. Americans run their lights and …