The classic test of delayed gratification shows that the promise by a peer – even a stranger – to achieve the same goal helps ...

Unfortunately, as is often the case with sending spacecraft flying into the Solar System, not all of the probes made it to their final destination. One probe, launched in 1972, failed to make it to ...

B ig news, California. It’s been confirmed that you have a new record for the highest tree, discovered by happy accident at a ...

"One of the benefits of Mars is life insurance for life collectively," Musk said in an interview with Fox News. "So ...

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The deep ocean is understood as any portion of the Earth's sea that is deeper than 200 meters (656 feet). Those regions cover ...

S cientists now have a new approach to study never-before-seen quantum phenomena. Physicists from the Massachusetts Institute ...

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E lon Musk's private space firm SpaceX now has its own municipality in Texas, complete with its own Mayor and Commissioner, ...

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On the night of June 11, 1962, three prisoners – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin – launched one of the ...