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NASA’s robotic spacecraft Phoenix’s Martian mission is to look for evidence of organic molecules and the history of a habitable environment in the planet’s past.

Until recently it was generally thought that we are incapable of producing new brain cells after early childhood.

Anxiety levels in American children have increased dramatically since the first effective scale for measuring childhood anxiety was published in 1956.

As neuroscience develops tests for particular psychological traits and medical predispositions in individuals, what moral values will govern such information?

Today, events such as Earth Day and the combined international efforts to complete and man the ISS are offshoots of the original cooperative Sputnik mission of 1957.

In Bangladesh, founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, has turned the banking system upside down. He tells Vision how this effects the poor of his country.

Vision's aim is to examine the underlying meaning of present conditions and focus beyond immediate circumstances: Two aspects of good vision.

Though the idea that motherhood zaps the brain cells is fairly well-entrenched, recent studies offer some great news countering this myth.

Fairy tales have clearly evolved over the centuries. And the changing tales say a lot about the changing times.

If Hans Christian Andersen were alive today, he might be surprised to see today’s most popular variation of his best-known story.

Over a century after Einstein’s first papers on relativity were published, it is challenging to contemplate what has yet to be revealed.

How can moving faster through space somehow slow the movement of time?

A term borrowed from the film industry serves as a useful metaphor for how we think.

Are human awareness, conscience and even consciousness itself simply a lucky mix, a repackaging of something that our biological ancestors somehow had in part?

It’s a reality with a colorful history dating back to ancient empires: Powerful leaders sometimes fall prey to grand delusions.

Scholars claim Nero built a huge bronze statue of himself as the sun god and set it up in his Golden House. But he probably never saw the statue standing in his house.

Emperor worship inherited some of its concepts from the ancient East, where kings were considered sons of the gods.

During the period between the death of Trajan and the rise of Constantine, several emperors perpetuated the imperial cult. Here's a timeline.

Numerous first-century Roman emperors were enamored with divinity.

Fascination with poker is growing everywhere, and with it, some rather Machiavellian ideas.