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After more than a year of his chaotic second term, President Donald Trump got a prime time chance to convince Americans the state of the union is strong. CNN annotated Trump’s speech with context and ...

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For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

Ranking the Indiana Jones movies by believability reveals which adventures feel grounded in history – and which push the franchise into wild fantasy.

The viral rise of baby macaque Punch has charmed viewers around the world. But in rural Japan, his wild counterparts are increasingly seen as threats as farmers struggle with mounting crop losses.

US lawmakers worry Trump may put 'boots on the ground' in Iran Democratic U.S. senators expressed alarm on Tuesday about the Iran war, saying they were worried that President Donald Trump could deploy ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Former President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us," after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend. During a ...

It is often suggested that this may have already happened: alien technosignatures may have reached Earth during the past six decades but have gone unnoticed. If that is true, it suggests that more ...

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...