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Raw Story Investigates: Join the Journalism Powered by the Pulitzer Prize Be part of a movement. The elections are won, but the damage in recent years is lasting. The fight for democracy …

Star Trek’s warp drive may be closer to reality (Photo: Getty) A Star Trek-like ‘warp drive’ has moved into the realms of physical possibility thanks to new research from scientists. If fully …

Every day in the late southern spring and summer, an astonishing elongated cloud forms around a gigantic volcano on Mars. This cloud appears every morning, it grows until amazing in length, and …

Physicists have measured the smallest gravitational field ever recorded, in an experiment that could aid in the search for a unified theory of physics. Of the four fundamental forces known to physics, …

About 1,600 years ago, a woman in eastern Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) was buried with a treasure trove of precious objects, including a headdress and four silver inlaid buckles gold and …

Credit: NASA Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater created by a meteorite on the planet, another team discovered that it is actually the result of normal geological …

Tiny radioactive snowflakes uranium that trigger massive nuclear explosions could explain some of the most mysterious stellar explosions in the universe. As smaller stars die, they cool into shells of what they …

Scientists have begun making plans for restocking, starting with a sperm bank, on the moon. In what they call a “modern global insurance policy,” mechanical engineers have proposed that humans establish a …

China and Russia agreed to jointly build a research station on or around the Moon, setting the stage for a new space race. The United States and the Soviet Union, followed by …

Mosaic view of a Martian rock nicknamed “Yeehgo”, captured by the SuperCam instrument on the Perseverance rover. Picture: NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / CNRS / ASU / MSSS Unprecedented …