You’d think there would be a law against this, and scientists thought there was, but somehow it happens, and it could help ...

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Zealandia sits in the Southern Hemisphere and is around 5 million square kilometers (1.9 million square miles) big, but 95 ...

T he animal world is full of contradictions, from tiny mouse-deer that are neither mice nor deer, to vampire squid that ...

Because of potential water and a source of heat, Olympus Mons has been suggested as a place to look for potential alien life; ...

I n most (but not all) cultures, it’s incredibly rude to ignore a sneeze – it has to be publicly acknowledged with a go-to ...

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Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

You might not expect there to be many health lessons from an animal so distant from us in time and evolution, but new ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) offices in Fairbanks and Juneau issued the initial heat advisory on June 12, followed by an updated advisory on June 16 warning of temperatures up to 29.4 to 31.1°C ...

S cientists have developed the longest and most complex simulation to date of a binary neutron star collision that results in the formation of a black hole and a jet. The breakthrough will massively ...

A while back, the Internet was puzzled by a physics problem involving a set of scales, an iron ball, and a ping pong ball of equal size. Now that that one has been cleared up, Reddit has been mulling ...