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How Did Life Survive on Snowball Earth? The Answer Lies in Antarctica

Imagine the cold, icy, punishing environs of Antarctica. Now...
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Did Dinosaurs Eat Mammals? Yes

At last, there's peer-reviewed evidence to back up a...
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A Trauma Doctor Analyzes the Thai Cave Rescue: ‘Nothing Short of Miraculous’

You probably already know the story. In 2018, 12 juvenile...
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What Does the Wind Feel Like on Mars?

The first thing you might ask yourself upon reading...
The 'Horonuku', the land yacht that broke the wind-powered land speed record.

222 Kilometres Per Hour — By Wind Power Alone!

By anyone's standards, 222kph is speedy. If the only...
An imagining of how North Greenland may have looked two million years ago.

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New Find Prompts Controversy Over Whether Pre-Humans Used Fire

Paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer Lee Berger announced on...
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Ancient ‘Zombie’ Viruses Revived From Siberian Permafrost

If you're tired of scientists stoking fear about deadly...
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Volcano in Kamchatka Erupts After Killing 9 Last Summer

The highest active volcano in Eurasia erupted on Nov....
The under-ice river in Antarctica

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The Great Sheep Mystery: Why Are Dozens of Sheep Walking in a Circle?

Well, here's some weird news for ewe. A flock...
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Ancient Australian Fossils Could Help the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

A new study claims that 3.48 billion-year-old fossils in...
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Solar Storm Creates Rare Pink Aurora

On Nov. 3, a dazzling display of rare pink...
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Christian Monastery Pre-Dating Islam Found on Arabian Peninsula

Archaeologists just discovered an ancient Christian monastery that may...
Drone images of an adult right whale with a blue whale calf.

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Times of Darkness: A History of Dark Days

Is this the end of the world? It's a...

Map Nerds Rejoice! The Three Norths Align in British Village

For the first time ever, true north, magnetic north,...
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Smiling Sun Could Make This Halloween Extra Spooky, NASA Says

The sun images released by NASA last week appeared...
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Sometimes at Gunpoint, Twins Discover New Highpoints Around The World

In an age of super-computers and GPS satellites, it's...
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In Southern Iraq, Drone Reveals Mesopotamia’s ‘Venice’

From a young age, many of us learned about...
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Remains of Neanderthal Family Discovered in Siberian Cave

We know more about giant dinosaurs from 165 million...
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New Film Documents Historic Jump From the Edge of Space

It's been 10 years since Austrian pilot Felix Baumgartner...
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth

In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. and the...

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