Frank Herbert’s “Dune” refers to a religious desert people who are desperate for a savior to overthrow an evil empire. Sound familiar?
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O.T. Olsen’s gorgeous ‘Piscatorial Atlas’ (1883) describes a world now destroyed and forgotten
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The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
The human brain is only the latest chapter in the ancient story of thinking on Earth.
The researchers hope to develop a no-trace plastic to curtail marine pollution and ghost fishing.
About 359 million years ago, at the end of the last phase of the Devonian period, there was a mass extinction event or series of events. An estimated 70 to […]
Proteus could someday be used to create extremely strong and lightweight armor and locks.
Must a religious story be confirmed as a true fact to be effective and inspiring?
An intriguing theory explains animals’ magnetic sense.
A new finding suggests Neanderthals were far from the big dumb brutes we make them out to be.
Certain water beetles can escape from frogs after being consumed.
Sharks fear killer whales. How does this impact the ecosystems they share?
A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.
The ocean’s largest shark relies on vision more than previously believed.
A small percentage of people who consume psychedelics experience strange lingering effects, sometimes years after they took the drug.
New anthropological research suggests our ancestors enjoyed long slumbers.
A clever new design introduces a way to image the vast ocean floor.
Big brains come at a big cost, however.
Some fish evolved legs and walked onto the land. Right?
Opponents of 19th-century American imperialism were not above body-shaming the personification of the U.S. government.
Two of Iceland’s largest whaling companies are keeping their boats in port this summer. One of them permanently.
Non-avian dinosaurs were thought terrestrially bound, but newly unearthed fossils suggest they conquered prehistoric waters, too.
Vegans and vegetarians often have nutrient deficiencies and lower BMI, which can increase the risk of fractures.
