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A jawbone from a victim of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, showed a massive amount radiation people may have absorbed as a result.

While golfing in Florida last weekend, Eric Drexler noticed something rather unusual: A crane appeared to be “escorting” an alligator across the course.

A mineral that requires the presence of water to form has been discovered in a lunar meteorite, a new study reports.

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you've ever been unable to find a bathroom in a moment of need, you know the gotta-go feeling. That's nothing compared to the wood frog, which doesn't urinate all winter.

Scientists, engineers and reporters gathered at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland on May 2 for a news conference announcing the latest results of the Kilopower nuclear power plant project: It has finished all of its major ground tests and met or surpassed the development team's expectations.

NASA is about to launch a spacecraft that will investigate Mars' deepest, darkest secrets.

Stephen Hawking's final paper, which aims to test a theory that proposes parallel universes, appeared today (May 2) in the Journal of High Energy Physics.

Two archaeologists and a museum volunteer are making history after reuniting two fragments of a rare 300-year-old wine bottle seal found decades apart.

More than 200 flat-Earth enthusiasts descended on West Midlands, England, this past weekend to "engage freely in deep and meaningful discussions," according to the Flat Earth Convention UK.

The bloodthirsty draft of a letter by King Henry VIII in which he demands a monk’s violent death is set to go on public display.

In one of the most Aussie things ever seen, a koala has been spotted wondering through Coles and casually making its way to the dairy section.

Alien life could potentially exist on the undersides of the icy shells of Jupiter's moon Europa and other frozen worlds thanks to the intersection of chemical energy rising up from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and oxidants diffusing down from the surface, new research suggests.

It takes 512 years for a high-energy photon to travel from the nearest neutron star to Earth. Just a few of them make the trip. But they carry the information necessary to solve one of the toughest questions in astrophysics.

The ancient moon may have had a gooey interior: A new study suggests that some 4 billion years ago, Earth's beloved satellite harbored a secret subsurface ocean of magma.

Wood frogs hold in urine all winter as a survival mechanism by recycling urea, according to a study published Tuesday.

A 100-year-old flag used in the funeral of U.S. troops on a small Scottish island during World War I is making it back to where it originated from as part of a remembrance of the Great War.

The U.S. will return 3,800 ancient artifacts to Iraq on Wednesday after it was discovered that they were smuggled into the U.S. under false identification and shipped to Hobby Lobby stores, federal officials said.

An Oklahoma woman is issuing a warning after her 57-year-old husband died from rattlesnake bites: "Don’t mess with snakes. If you hear it rattling, you leave it alone.”

The owner of a private South African game reserve is in intensive care Tuesday after being mauled by one of his own lions in a shocking incident captured on video.

The owner of a private South African game reserve is in intensive care Tuesday after being mauled by one of his own lions in a shocking incident captured on video.