We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish “Wreck Viewer” offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
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Head direction cells act like internal compasses to help the birds navigate during long flights.
555-million-year-old oceanic creatures share genes with today’s humans, finds a new study.
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Probably not. Even though we’re still investigating the origin of life, the evidence suggests that cells came much later.
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A famous explorer’s doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
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A new study reveals what caused most life on Earth to die out during the end-Permian extinction, also known as the Great Dying.
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If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.
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Evolution proves to be just about as ingenious as Nikola Tesla
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A clever new design introduces a way to image the vast ocean floor.
The arc of geological history is long, but it bends towards supercontinents – so, what will the next one look like?
In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
Geologists discover a rhythm to major geologic events.
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These bizarre mollusks have the ability to regenerate their bodies and to absorb other organisms’ attributes.
When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.
A new study shows that at least one long-ago journey would have required deliberate navigation.
Researchers from Norway discover that the Moon’s tides influence the release of methane from the ocean floor.