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Searching For a Snakebit Sun God’s Nemesis

Ancient Egyptians were definitely snake-charmed — but by which...
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Scientists Discover Nature’s ‘Missing Law’

Nearly 164 years after Charles Darwin published On the...
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A $39,000 Turd: Fossilized Viking Poo Is World’s Most Valuable Excrement

Have you heard the one about the Viking, the...
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Nadya Oleneva Found Dead on Dhaulagiri I

There is sad news from Nepal, where a rescue...
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Unknown Climber Outruns Alex Honnold for El Cap Speed Record

The fastest man on The Nose of El Capitan...
George Lowe

Lifetime Achievement Piolet d’Or Awarded to George Lowe

For their annual awards, the Piolet d'Or organizers drew...
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Robot ‘Monster Wolves’ in Japan Scare Bears, Boars

Howling animatronic creations with red LED “eyes” are the...
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Hiker Falls Short on Bold Rockies ‘Grand Slam’ Attempt

A man who endeavored to link up virtually all...
The Orion Nebula

James Webb Telescope Finds Giant Free-Range Planets in Orion

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has pierced the...
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Teen Arrested as Iconic UK Tree ‘Deliberately Felled’

Police in Northumbria, England today arrested a 16-year-old boy...
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‘Hitler’ Bug Faces Extinction From Collectors. Help is Not on the Way

In a handful of obscure Slovenian caves, a blind...
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Ancient Amazonians Made Infertile Jungle Rich With ‘Dark Earth’

Successful plant communities begin in the soil first —...
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Supercontinent Will Kill Us All, Researchers Say

The climate will kill us, and the mechanism will...
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Team ‘Disproves’ Da Vinci’s Rule of Trees — Or Does It?

Wales’ Bangor University recently claimed that a group of...
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Deep-Sea ‘Hoofprints’ Came From This Elusive Creature

What made these "hoofprints" at the bottom of the...
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What the Dark Side of the Moon Looks Like

If you’re attached to the inscrutability of the dark...
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The Largest Insect That Ever Lived — Don’t Worry, It’s Not A Mosquito

While some of us are still recovering from the...
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Watch a Big Cat Invade a Sheep Pen

Few have seen big cats hunt at night because,...
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Deadly Morocco Quake Re-Ignites Conjecture Over ‘Earthquake Lights’

Reports of flashing blue lights near Agadir, Morocco during...
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‘Deep Learning’ Toilet, Cyborg Spiders Win 2023 Ig Nobel Prizes

The headliners of this year’s Ig Nobel science awards...
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Record-Breaking Astronaut to Broadcast Live From Space

There’s an astronomical opportunity in store for space lovers...
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James Webb Telescope Spots Potential Life on Alien World

In an astronomical breakthrough, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope...
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Trapped Caver Mark Dickey Survives ‘Hell’ of an Ordeal

Mark Dickey has emerged from the Turkish cave that...
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Duo Claims First Ascent Of Highest Peaks in All The ‘Stans

Given the inherent subjectivity of peakbagging, it's not surprising...

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