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What can DNA testing companies reveal about our ancestry and health, and at what risk?

Watch as birds solve puzzles and challenge our basic notions of intelligence.

Scientists and engineers fight to save Notre Dame Cathedral after the 2019 fire.

How did early engineers carve tombs into rock cliffs and funnel water to this desert city?...

1500 years ago, how did the Romans engineer bloody spectacles and reenact sea battles?

Scientists look to geoengineering and other methods to cool the planet.

Can bringing predatorsand fearback into an ecosystem help restore its natural balance?

The creation of printing, the first information technology, drove empires and revolutions....

The birth of writing and the first alphabet were among the worlds most vital inventions.

Meet slime molds: the brainless blobs that can learn, make decisions, and navigate mazes.

Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab a piece of an asteroid to bring it back to Earth.

We can now edit the human genome with a tool called CRISPR. But how far should we go?