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It’s About Time: ESA Agrees to Agree on Lunar Timekeeping

Quick: What time is it? An easy enough question to...
the amazon rainforest

Amazon Ordeal: Man Survives 31 Days on Worm Diet

A Bolivian man lost in the Amazon jungle for...
helicopter in Ciudad Perdida

Lidar: Revealing Archaeology’s Hidden World With A Billion Points of Light

When looters discovered Colombia's Ciudad Perdida ("Lost City") in...
Aksay Horseshoe

Three Climbers Pull Off 15-Peak Traverse in Kyrgyzstan

In modern alpinism, traverses have become one of the...
orcas

Two Orcas Kill 17 Sharks in One Day, Eat Only Their Livers

If sharks made their own horror films, I'm pretty...
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Astronaut Captures ‘Absolutely Unreal’ Photo of Northern Lights From Space

There are those who say the northern lights are...
A cropped version of photographer Nicolas Remy's award-winning spotted handfish photograph.

Photographer Snags Image of Rare Tasmanian Spotted Handfish

There are only 3,000 spotted handfish still crawling around...
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This Map Will Show You How Much Wild Space is Left on the Planet

Sometimes it seems like we're running out of wild...
travis mcalpine

Beloved Alaskan Ice Climber Dies in Car Crash

After 20 years of ice climbing and snowboarding adventures,...
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‘Forbidden Planet’ the Size of Jupiter Discovered Orbiting Tiny Star

There are laws of planet formation that seldom bend...
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New Layer Discovered in Earth’s Core

If you journey to the center of the Earth,...
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Siegrist Goes ‘Back to the Future’ For One of the Hardest Climbs in the U.S.

One unlikely strip of stone in southern Nevada’s Clear...
the hunt

Weekend Warm-Up: ‘The Hunt’ To Restore Indigenous Identity

How do Native Americans reclaim the identity that was...
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Motorola Defy Satellite Dongle Brings Off-Grid Texting to Smartphones

Leave it to one American cellular brand to condense...
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The Last Run: Man Hangs Up the Boards After 90 Years of Skiing

At a tiny ski mountain in a minor New...
mont blanc

A Winter Repeat of Mont Blanc’s Legendary Freney Central Pillar

It was probably a normal Valentine's Day for alpinist...

Black Hole The Size of 20 Million Suns Speeding Through Space

An enormous black hole has left the center of...
an orca whale

Orca Cares For Pilot Whale Calf in Never Before Seen Behavior

Scientists studying orcas off the west coast of Iceland...
The James Webb Telescope against the backdrop of a galaxy

‘It’s Bananas’: James Webb Telescope Finds Six Galaxies That Challenge Current Understanding

A group of scientists trawling through the original batch...
snow leopard in the mountains

‘It’s Their Eyes’: Intimate Snow Leopard Pic Wins Wildlife Photo Contest

Photographs like the one above don't come easily —...
fin whale

‘Beyond Belief’: Massive Fin Whale Pod Sighting Prompts Fishing Scrutiny

On a January 2022 morning in the Southern Ocean,...
a frog

Frogo Baggins: Scientists Name New Amphibian After J.R.R. Tolkien

When scientists surveying a stream in Rio Negro-Sopladora National...
a roman carving of a phallus

Dildo, Pestle, or Torture Tool? Historians Ponder Uses Of Ancient Roman Phallus

Historians taking a closer look at a 2,000-year-old "darning...
Geisler mountains Alps

A Dolomites’ Dozen: Italian Solo-Traverses 12 Peaks In 3 Days

Simon Gietl has once again proved himself a master...

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