The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
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Self-help often distills philosophical ideas for the modern ear. Sometimes, its better to go back to the source.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.
Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.
For centuries, the only way to travel between the Old and New World was through ships like the RMS Lusitania. Experiences varied wildly depending on your income.
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?
Smart CEOs can harness authenticity and humanity on socials — but one slip can spell disaster. Here’s a strategic plan.
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.
A famous explorer’s doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.
One possible vision of the distant future.
Since dark matter eludes detection, the mission will target sources of light that are sensitive to it.
It’s possible to measure philosophy’s progress in two ways. But is that really the point?
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi’s atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
Thanks to a couple of rovers, we know Mars was once blue.
More than 300 years ago, a Spanish ship laden with unspeakable treasure sank after a battle. Because of greed, the treasure remains on the sea floor.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
The original principle of relativity, proposed by Galileo way back in the early 1600s, remains true in its unchanged form even today.
With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
Some solar cells are so lightweight they can sit on a soap bubble.
By weaponizing the global economy, the U.S. initiated a new era of economic warfare and transformed how major powers compete.