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Scientists at the University of Melbourne have uncovered for the first time how Australia's iconic Twelve Apostles were ...

A new study analyzing Mount Everest expeditions spanning more than a century has found that death rates among climbers have ...

Less than a year ago, astronomers discovered a comet soaring through our sky that was not from our solar system. Although we ...

Today’s octopuses are intelligent, remarkably flexible animals that lurk in reefs, hide in crevices, or drift through the ...

Insomnia may have been torturing humanity since ancient times, but over the last 20 years scientists have made progress in ...

During the fall semester of 2025, I taught a graduate seminar entitled “Darwinian Thought and Society.” While teaching should ...

Insomnia may have been torturing humanity since ancient times, but over the last 20 years scientists have made progress in their understanding of chronic sleep deprivation. Today, ...

If you know one thing about atoms, it’s probably that they’re “mostly empty space.” but that’s not really true. It’s a myth ...

(via New Scientist) Most people think the multiverse is just about "what-if" scenarios – other versions of you where you took ...

We all know the story. Dinosaurs were roaming the earth, happy as could be, and then our planet met a big asteroid. Thus ...

(via Be Smart) Imprisoned for heresy, Gerardus Mercator later created a map that transformed navigation forever. We explore why his projection distorts the world, how it solved a deadly problem for ...