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One hundred years after its discovery, scientists have captured the elusive colossal squid on film in its natural habitat. The juvenile squid was found around 2,000 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean near the South Sandwich Islands. Measuring about one foot long, it drif...
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A tardigrade, a microscopic animal. If a shadow biosphere exists, it would be at this miniscule l...
Earth's Core is Slowing Down, But Don't Worry!
A visualization of the Earth's magnetic field, generated by the iron inner core. (Source: NASA)
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A visualization of the ozone layer hole as it stood in 1985. (Source: NASA)
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A New Exoplanet on the Scene
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The James Webb Space Tele...
The "Sea Peoples" and Bronze Age Propaganda
Ramesses III's mortuary temple that in part depicts his battle with the Sea Peoples. (Source: Na...
Fictious Roman Emperor Proven to be Real
Ruins from Roman Dacia, where Sponsianus ruled. (Source: Romania Insider)
The historical record ...
Monkey Skeleton Sheds Light on Ancient Civilization
A group of spider monkeys. (Source: Auckland Zoo)
The skeletal remains of a spider monkey found ...
A New Explanation for the T-Rex's Stubby Arms
Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex, sporting the dinosaur's tiny arms. (Source: Field Museum of Natural H...
A Religion for Radiation
A cooling tower at a nuclear power plant. Plants like these produce nuclear waste that can poten...
Successful Nuclear Fusion Achieved
The target chamber at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (Source: LLNL)
Scientists worki...
Artemis I Returns From the Moon
The Orion capsule after completing splashdown. (Source: NASA)
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Piece of the Space Shuttle Challenger Found
Some of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew (source: NASA)
Divers working on a History Channel docu...
A Dinosaur with Golden Bones?
An artistic rendering of an Iguanodon.
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London's Ghost Club Obsession
An illustration from Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol, inspired by the Spiritualist movement.
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A Trial of the Dead
Jean-Paul Laurens, Le Pape Formose et Étienne VI ("Pope Formosus and Stephen VI"), 1870Criminal t...
NASA's Dart Makes Impact!
All around our solar system, millions of asteroids orbit the sun along with the planets. Most are...
Which Ended First... The Dinosaur or the Egg?
We often imagine the end of the dinosaurs as a violent cataclysm limited to one fateful day; near...
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A multiple exposure photo of the 2017 solar eclipse over Redmond, Oregon
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New Discoveries on Mars!
Earlier this year, we talked about how the Mars Perseverance rover was searching the Jezero crate...
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The Deepest Shipwreck
Above: The Roberts wreck, 4.3 miles below the water. (Source: Caladan Oceanic And Eyos Expedit)
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BTS On The Moon!
South Korea has launched its first lunar mission, officially joining the modern-day space race. T...
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Above: A scene from "The Hunting Book of Gaston Phoebus, Count of Foix, Lord of Béarn", 14th cent...
Set Sail for the Milky Seas!
Above: Satellite imagery of the "Milky Seas" off the coast of Java in 2019. CSU/CIRA and NOAA/NES...
T. Rex Keeps Its Crown
Earlier this year, a team of researchers asked a question: What if Tyrannosaurus Rex wasn't just ...
The Large Hadron Collider Is Back At It Again!
Above: A section of the LHC interior
The Large Hadron Collider is beginning its third operationa...
A Heartbeat from Outer Space
Scientists working with the CHIME radio telescope in British Columbia have observed a rather stra...
Seeing Into The Past
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