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This is known as gravitational lensing. The Cosmic Grapes were made 100 times brighter and larger than they would otherwise ...

A species’ common name can often be misleading. Koala bears aren’t bears, starfish aren’t fish, and the mountain chicken is ...

Parasite cleanses are typically based on the idea that someone has an intestinal parasite infection – so worms or protozoa ...

A submarine volcano off the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the US is set to blow in 2025. Seamounts like this are providing scientists with the perfect opportunity to study the evolution of early ...

Thanks to 15 years of high-precision radio observation with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), scientists have realized ...

In May 1883, Krakatoa awoke and started to rumble with volcanic activity, culminating in an intense eruption on August 27. It ...

Solids and liquids turning to gas can create surprising motion, and in the California desert, moving rocks proved that melting ice could do it too.

A lmost all human languages follow Zipf's law of abbreviation – and it turns out, so do bird songs. This strange observation ...

In the more likely scenario, a star over 30 times the mass of our Sun was orbiting a stellar-size black hole. In the year ...

After the Maya people known as Lakandon-Ch'ol were forced out of their capital, Lakam Tun ("Great Rock") in 1586, they moved further into the jungle, creating the city of Sak-Bahlán, or the "land of ...