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Formula 1 kicked off on Monday its week-long Barcelona Shakedown test for the sport’s new generation of machines.

In 2015, John Bohannon, a science journalist and biologist, felt that reporters were at fault for bad science and the ...

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There’s a new journey that largely traces the fabled Paris-to-Istanbul Orient Express route, but without the exorbitant cost.

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...