Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.
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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.
Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
A famous explorer’s doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.
It’s possible to measure philosophy’s progress in two ways. But is that really the point?
One possible vision of the distant future.
Since dark matter eludes detection, the mission will target sources of light that are sensitive to it.
Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.
Self-help often distills philosophical ideas for the modern ear. Sometimes, its better to go back to the source.
Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
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.
Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.
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.
Thanks to a couple of rovers, we know Mars was once blue.
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
Smart CEOs can harness authenticity and humanity on socials — but one slip can spell disaster. Here’s a strategic plan.
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.
With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
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.
There are a few possible solutions to the problem of interstellar travel, but they largely remain within the realm of science fiction.
Scientists captured it on footage 1.5 miles below the surface.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
The original principle of relativity, proposed by Galileo way back in the early 1600s, remains true in its unchanged form even today.