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A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on…

Scientists say they’ve finally solved the mystery behind what happens just before lightning…

Climbing is for the forest, and walking is for the savannah. That’s the basic premise behind one of the biggest theories of human evolution, which holds that our ancient ancestors transitioned from climbing in the trees to walking on the ground…

The search for life on Mars and moons across the Solar System may need to start digging a bit deeper to find answers underground. Beneath the surface of these planetary bodies, there’s a chance that biological activity is being energized by…

A new vaccine administration method doesn’t rely on needles or sprays to deliver the vaccine, but on dental floss. 

Publishing their findings in Nature Biomedical Engineering, a research team tested the vaccine-coated dental floss on animals,…

Roughly 76 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs left a trail of footprints that reveals different species may have walked together – and been stalked together, too.

An international team of paleontologists discovered the…

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only the virus but also the prolonged period of stress, isolation, loss, and uncertainty that the pandemic caused. A new scientific…

Humans have only visually explored 0.001 percent of the deep sea — it’s deep, dark, but full of life. 

In this exclusive Discover Magazine podcast episode, we speak with Dr. Katy Croff Bell, who is a National Geographic explorer and the founder…

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again.

On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle–shaped vehicle on the program’s eighth mission next month. The launch of the…