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Some artifacts drown in shipwrecks, others are taken by the tide. Many others will vanish as a result of climate change and rising sea levels.
Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth’s magnetic field.
Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn’t instant.
You may only have a few minutes to prepare.
Frozen adversity set the stage for an explosion of diversity.
The architecture and infrastructure found may well have required the greatest amount of skilled labor of any construction from the same time period in the entire continent.
In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn’t mean CGI is always used to good effect.
From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience “the end,” no matter how we define it.
Let’s hope that squid don’t evolve lungs and legs, or humanity might be in real trouble.
Scientists look to erupted sea glass — lava that erupted in the ocean and was instantly chilled by the surrounding water — to take Earth’s temperature.
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
Urinating in the direction of NATO’s staunchest opponent could cost you $350 or more. For world peace, aim wisely.
Almost all royal lines try to legitimize their rule with legendary origin stories. Here are five of the strangest examples.
This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. Fifteen volunteers in France just spent more than a month living in a cave — without any way to tell time — […]
Mansa Musa, perhaps history’s richest man, claims he ascended the throne of Mali after his predecessor sailed west and never came back. Could he have made it to the New World?
Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
By digging deep, we could harness enough energy to power generations to come. But it involves fracking.
It is humanity’s biggest step yet into the Solar System.
The microscopic tardigrades are an elusive species. Fossils are rare, but each new find adds a piece to their unsolved evolutionary puzzle.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the “Codex Amiatinus,” a Latin translation of the Bible.
Syllipsimopodi bideni is small (about 12cm in length), has ten arms, suckers, fins, and a triangular pen of hard tissue inside its body for support.
The innovative investor and entrepreneur deals out advice for anyone looking to follow in his footsteps.
Strange underwater icicles form in the Earth’s coldest regions and freeze living organisms in place.
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome?