Every elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. They play a crucial role for the animals, which have thick skin and ...

Read Don Huffines' Republican candidate questionnaire for the Texas Comptroller race.

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Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

Perched on a knife-edge peak in Washington State, this fire lookout cabin defied logic and gravity. Built in the 1930s, it was used for only four years before being abandoned for unclear reasons. The ...

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ICE and Border Patrol close sophisticated La Nueva Empresa cartel tunnel under Rio Grande connecting Juárez to El Paso.

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

The more divided we become, the more absurd it all starts to look. Not because the problems aren’t real — they are — but ...

Explore Missouri's most baffling architecture, from a soaring arch to a towering residential tower. See the 9 buildings that ...