Elon Musk said his company, SpaceX, has shifted focus to establishing a human settlement on the moon before doing so on Mars ...

Unearthed in 1974, the famed hominid skeleton reshapes our understanding of evolution ...

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The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

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In Podcast," Elon Musk commented on why Microsoft founder Bill Gates dismissed the possibility that Tesla could make a usable ...