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The current US Supreme Court has no fundamental understanding of a range of medical, engineering, technological, or ...

This spooky season, IFLScience is taking you on a journey between science and superstition, to a dimension of imagination ...

Stratification theories layer the natural world from the inanimate to the animate to the animal to the human. They used to be ...

and that all organic and inorganic processes can be explained by reference to the laws of nature. Physics, the main branch of science generally supporting this view, has been able to explain a ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

Students can explore science concepts through an activity that encourages them to record their observations in thoughtful ...

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The Southern Taurid meteor shower is set to peak Monday night into Tuesday with a chance for sky-gazers to spot fireballs.

A study of Gila monster venom helped start the revolution in weight-loss drugs. But scientists think that’s just the ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

In 1997, mathematician Daina Taimina did something no one else had: She modeled hyperbolic planes using crochet. While the geometry of such planes was hard to convey with paper models, it lent ...