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In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.
Scientists have found ingenious ways to weigh the tiniest building blocks of life
Let's get acquainted with the lesser known but still very interesting moons of Pluto.
Russian Roulette is deadly game that likely spawned from a work of fiction.
The "skeleton form" is because of the unusual way the flower generates color.
Deep sea creatures are remarkably well adapted to their hellish environment. So why do we parade them as bizarre and weird?
We've been living a lie.
Maps help shape how we make sense of the world.
The race for space internet is colliding with humanity’s oldest science.
From carved figurines to coins, skeletons, and even entire settlements, the railway has opened up a new golden age of archaeology.
From obscurity to fame to fortune and back again, Adam Osborne changed the computer landscape.
New research shows tree-shaped solar arrays beat flat panels in energy and ecology.
Washing in cooler, shorter cycles saves clothes, energy, and oceans.
Turns out, animals dream a lot like us: about everyday life.
It's a mix of both and much more.
Archaeologists have finally proven that Romans used black henbane. But how did they use it?
The Herring Lassies of Scotland worked, travelled and left a unique mark on the history of working women.
The U.S. economy is flashing a troubling mix of signals.
It's the kind of stuff AI can be really useful at.
This tree practically built early America. It could help once more.
They didn’t run away from us. It killed them in the end.
Each team is defending one hemisphere!
In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big task for his scholars: a map that would depict the entire world. The results was a monumental map that would forever change China’s understanding of its place in the world. Known as the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (坤輿萬國全圖), or A Map of the Myriad […]
The Babylonians had quite a knack for organizing things.
Navigator, We Hardly Knew Ye.
It's not The Handmaid's Tale, though that could also come in handy.
Your left cheek could be the secret to getting more likes on social media.
An AI robot performed gallbladder surgery without human help, and it worked every time.
130,000-year-old discovery reveals a new side to our ancient cousins.
A pollinator story featuring sex, deceit, and tequila.
Unfortunately, there are few images we can respectably share here.
The cold truth about shark attacks and why you’re safer than you think.
Most users don't even know this type of surveillance exists.
This season doesn’t have to be about comparison or self-criticism.
From a sailing myth to proven fact, rogue waves and the lesser known rogue holes are rare but real.
From chameleons to ghostly plants, Earth’s life forms have evolved ingenious ways to eat.
You can't go wrong including these nuts and seeds into your diet for a healthier brain.
As soon as we recognised inheritance, we began selectively breeding to see what we could get.
The culprit was an ancient superstition about "cursed" baby girls.
Whether you think of it as a weed or a bit of nature in the city, a dandelion has impressive survival skills.
Composting toilets could make a difference in our water-limited world. But are we ready to consider them?
Win a Nobel, and you’ll never be ignored again — whether you like it or not.
Let's zoom in on one of the strangest, oldest and most mesmerizing creatures in the sea.
The broader takeaway is clear: with space and time, life can — and will — rebound.
On a frozen landscape in Svalbard, Norway, where the glaciers bleed into the Arctic Ocean, a small buzzing drone lifted into the air. Its mission was not surveillance, nor delivery. It was science. Armed with thermal cameras and spectral sensors, these flying robots can map melting ice, spot hidden algae blooms, and beam back data […]
Through the efforts of one remarkable man, an old tradition of Polynesian navigation was revived.
It’s not really in your genes that much. It’s how you live, explore, and pay attention.
Ramisyllis multicaudata challenges the very idea of a body.
Grassroots social and economic engines that brought even slaves into civic life.
It's one of the weirdest pledges you'll ever come across.
