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

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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 ...

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

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

They found that the green roofs can trap over 97.5 percent of microplastics during a heavy downpour of rain. Most of the ...

These are the unfortunately final moments of victims of the Uloboridae spiders, a family of orb weavers that, unlike almost all other spiders, don’t inject venom. Without their own built-in lethal ...

T he US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has set a new distance record for wireless energy ...

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 ...

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 ...