Colonizing Mars is an obsession among certain space geeks. Elon Musk has made several grandstanding predictions about when he believes humankind will reach the red planet. But as Scott Solomon shows ...

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A Penn State sociology professor, she warned that hosts like Oprah Winfrey exploited vulnerable guests on television and sensationalized deviancy. By Sam Roberts Vicki Abt, a sociologist and author ...

The molecules: decane, undecane, and dodecane are hydrocarbons, long chains of carbon and hydrogen more commonly associated with petroleum on Earth. Their size alone sets them apart from previous ...

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Six lively people were gathered in someone’s Hollywood drawing room one rainy night when the doorbell rang and Miss Greta Garbo was announced. She came in wearing a beret over her straight blonde hair ...

Learn how a young volcano on Mars stayed active for nine million years and what its changing lava reveals about Mars’ interior. Mars may look frozen and silent today, but near Pavonis Mons — a volcano ...

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered ...

In March 1995 Valeri Polyakov, a Russian cosmonaut, returned to Earth after a record 14 consecutive months in space. Extended weightlessness generally wreaks havoc on the human body, often disrupting ...