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Scientists have been probing our solar system for extraterrestrial life.

I’ll meet you at the corner of Saruman and Aragorn

A strangely reassuring global directory of close to 8,000 radio stations

You are who you are because of your environment. What happens in a virtual world in an environment created by another mind?

You might find this hard to swallow

A minister misspeaks – and accidentally creates an entire Latin American country

It might not be what you expect

The winning side in the U.S. presidential election rules a vast, contiguous land mass, the losers are cooped up on a far-flung archipelago

Hitler and other Nazis were fond of a strange theory that the world was made of ice.

Death, politics and war – but also Dirty Grandpas, supermoons and all-day breakfasts

Delicious. But how do you pronounce it?

A handful of noble families own large tracts of the British capital – and have done so for centuries

Here, it’s men who suffer from a (reverse) gender pay gap

Plotting out the world’s longest pub crawl had a serious, mathematical point

Everything you always wanted to know about the Dutch, but were afraid to ask because they spit while they speak

The secret Red Line Map that could have given Lower Canada to the U.S.

If only men would vote, Trump would be the next president. If only women voted, Clinton would win by an even bigger landslide.

Considering that the United States remains the world’s only superpower, that begs the question: How informed are Americans when it comes to their country’s vast global power?

Europe is the continent where you are most likely to be killed by Liam Neeson.

Is consciousness everywhere? Is it a basic feature of the Universe, at the very heart of the tiniest subatomic particles? Such an idea – panpsychism as it is known – […]

Welcome to Music City – just click and play!

It’s a web, it’s a cloud – it’s under attack: how outages reveal the actual shape of the internet

As this stark map shows, domestic violence against children is still legal in most of the world.

Once the emergency is over, maybe it’s time we drew a different map of Louisiana – however shocking it may be.

Years of war in the Middle East have erased old borders. Here is what the map currently looks like. 

New research at USC shows universal brain activity in the comprehension of stories for the first time. 

While nobody was paying attention, Germany took over a bit of Czech territory

The nearest exoplanet ever has been observed, but not yet seen. Is this what the ‘Earth Next Door’ looks like?

Only in 1992 was science able to calculate the remotest part of the ocean

The Global economic midpoint is returning to Asia – at increasing speed.