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The discovery, made by a National Geographic team 100 years after the mountaineer vanished with George Mallory, could add new ...

In the medical field, being fast, efficient, and correct can be the difference between life and death. This game-changing ...

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The comet, which will be visible to the naked eye, orbits the sun roughly once every 80,000 years—the last time it passed ...

For the first time, NASA is journeying to this mysterious moon to determine if it might be able to host alien life.

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From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and ...

Since Japan sees the sun rise 16 hours before California, we fly backwards in time. Twenty-five hours in transit, leaving ...

HMS Trooper, designated N91, went missing after a secret mission in early October 1943 to land three Greek resistance agents ...

More than 10 years ago, former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos, and ...