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Islamophobia is an exaggerated fear, negative sentiments and hatred toward Islam and those who follow the religion.

Black holes are notorious serial starkillers, so good at what they do that we don’t even have photos of them, just the NASA version of police sketches.

Artifacts left behind by Australia’s first human settlers show they got to the area as early as 51,000 years ago and were able to adapt to a changing coastal environment.

Scientists finally found the elusive “T. rex” ant that looks like a dinosaur, and discovered its insect colony is made of a bunch of scared, nocturnal cannibals.

The new president of Iran, appointed after the ongoing 2017 elections, could make or break diplomatic relations with the United States.

Assange has been living in the Ecuador embassy for nearly five years, protected by Ecuador's current leftist government from extradition to Sweden over the 2012 rape allegations.

Images of the ring around Fomalhaut — a 440-million-years-old star about 25 light-years from Earth — were captured using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.

While the U.S. military did not say the encounter was unsafe, the crew of the aircraft reportedly called the action “unprofessional.”

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands said the most relaxing part of flying an aircraft or helicopters has been "to completely disengage and concentrate on something else," as "you can't take your problems from the ground into the skies."

The largest unnamed body in the solar system provisionally called 2007 OR10, is one of the nine known dwarf planets, and is located in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.

While on the run, Cummins had disabled the GPS of his car, threw his mobile phone and even adopted a false name, it was reported.

Scientists made thousands of caterpillars with modeling clay and glued them on plants across over 30 sites around the world.

The rivers on Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, flow across its landscape the way they used to on Mars before it dried up, so Titan may not be as similar to Earth as we thought.

Comets may have delivered Earth’s atmosphere while it was forming and made it the planet we love today.

A bunch of flat, rug-like sea creatures were pretty complex for their time, and their fossils can tell us a lot about the evolution of ocean animals and even human ancestors.

A new study suggested that a person "might avoid contact with sleep-deprived, or sleepy-looking, individuals, as a strategy to reduce health risk and poor interactions."

The 15-day-old baby was found Sunday covered with bite marks on her arms, fingers, face and a huge one on her forehead which made her skull visible.

Of the five mass extinction events in the last 450 million years, we know the cause of the third, fourth and the fifth, and now also possibly of the first.

Barely one year after being elected as president, Temer has been accused of corruption and people are already calling for his impeachment.

Yes, according to historical and modern data, and new research suggests it is because intelligence provides us the ability to rise above our instincts.

The country shut down all of its nuclear plants after the 2011 disaster.

There are less than 30 vaquitas left and they could be extinct before next year.

An iconic penguin species might go extinct in our lifetimes, but climate change is overshadowing problems we can fix to keep the endangered penguins alive.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he is ready to provide transcripts of the meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian officials last week.

May 19 marks this year's World Hypertension Day.

Princess Mako will get engaged to her former classmate Kei Komuro, who is a law firm worker and graduate student from Tokyo’s Hitotsubashi University.

One of the largest dinosaurs to have lived, the bite of Tyrannosaurus rex could crush up to 8,000 pounds, which is about the weight of three small cars.

The mechanism, discovered by Greek scientists, is now kept at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

The atmosphere on Mars evolved over time, and during that period of climate change, rain probably fell hard enough in storms that carved out the surface and eroded craters.