Saturn’s Iapetus, discovered way back in 1671, has three bizarre features that science still can’t fully explain.
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The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.
There are two conceptions of free will: “straight” and “mixed.”
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you’re a man). But there is a downside.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
A new study analyzed Martian glaciers to discover that the planet had numerous ice ages.
The eastern inner core located beneath Indonesia’s Banda Sea is growing faster than the western side beneath Brazil.
All life forms, anywhere in our Universe, are chemically connected yet completely unique.
At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
From corrupt czars to bloodthirsty Bolsheviks, Russia has had no shortage of bad leaders. But just how evil were they really?
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“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair
The organisms were anchored to a boulder 900 meters beneath the ice, living a cold, dark existence miles away from the open ocean.
The universe’s largest seismometer reveals clues about the Gas Giant’s interior.
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.
In 2006, Pluto was demoted in a very controversial decision. Unless you ignore nearly all of planetary science, it’ll never be one again.
All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.
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Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
A new study of Martian dust gives insights into the ancient Martian climate. The findings hint at a wetter world.
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis argues that a comet strike caused major changes to climate and human cultures on Earth about 13,000 years ago.
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.