Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

When Duke professor Erich Jarvis wanted to find the key to human communication, he turned to birds. Strange, but true. Jarvis has been studying songbirds' brains for insight into human linguistics, ...

In the Arizona desert, James Turrell is creating one of the most ambitious artworks in American history. Here’s an exclusive look Photographs by Michelle Groskopf; Text by Wil S. Hylton It was a ...

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You've likely watched space shuttles launch using massive rockets, but how exactly do the rockets that are the backbone of ...

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A family from Spain was about to celebrate the ninth birthday of one of their children when their sightseeing helicopter ...