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Could walking backwards (carefully!) be the best way to supercharge your strolls?

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The Scene of the Crime: Chicxulub and the Prehistoric Apocalypse About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 6 miles wide ...

Have aliens visited us? As a statistician, I never want to say there is a zero percent chance of anything, but in this case, ...

Orlando Sentinel Voters Guide candidate profile for Dayna Marie Foster, a Democrat, who is running for Florida governor.

Peptides have become one of the hottest trends in wellness, with promises like faster muscle recovery and healthier aging. And six of these compounds cleared a major hurdle last week, when an advisory ...

For decades, we've been told to drink 64 ounces of water a day. A major peer-reviewed study suggests that's the wrong approach.

Lakes of liquid methane on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, could offer exhilarating—and terrifying—opportunities for ...

Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule met with the media and answered a variety of questions at Big Ten Media Days in Chicago on Thursday.

Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg, out with an album called “The New World,” is also a naturalist and explorer whose next book is ...

The possibility that bright young people will decide America is no longer worth the trouble should terrify us.