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THERE is something alien—different, distant, disconcerting—about the voice, the technology. A herd of sheep has been decimated. 6000 of them. The field. Journalist has named the cause: nerve gas. Now, ...

It is possible to visit this strange place of 'snotties', psychedelic stalactites and long abandoned artefacts ...

Survival of the fittest—a concept that’s been twisted and abused since its birth—could be a Trump administration motto.

In996, NORAD spotted an object entering Earth’s atmosphere. Minutes later, it crashed near Varginha, Brazil. The military scrambled — but civilians got there first. What they saw wasn’t human.

Hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle, an American oil company is attempting to extract billions of barrels of oil on ...

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

The president of Brazil has been pursuing his big plans for the Amazon rainforest, even as parts of it burn in massive wildfires. He has been working to carve more mines and pave new roads. He has ...