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The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.

Every star we can see, including our sun, was born in one of these violent clouds.

In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.

Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?

Nobody knows where the word “penguin” comes from.

Three out of four Russians accused of witchcraft were men.

While we can see many solar storms coming, some are “stealthy.” A new study shows how to detect them.

There really might be extraterrestrials out there, attempting to make contact. Here’s how science, not fiction, is attempting to find them.

Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.

Aptera expects to begin delivering its solar-powered car later in 2022.

The search for worlds outside our solar system has just turned up a planet, TOI-2257 b, with a truly extreme orbit.

Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.

Tumor cells traverse many different types of fluids as they travel through the body.

Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.

The authors call it “wildly theoretical” — but let’s take a look, anyway.

The secret ingredient is violence, and it just might indicate that “moonmoons” aren’t as uncommon as most astronomers think.

Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

Here’s what the weather phenomenon baking large parts of the country actually means.

China has reached a new record for nuclear fusion at 120 million degrees Celsius.

These astounding inventions show that civilizations of the past were a lot more advanced than we might have thought.

Watch the plasma slide down the prominence like a roller coaster! Our Sun, despite it’s outward appearance as a perfectly hot sphere, is anything but uniform. When take a closer look […]

The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth’s crust.

Venus has far more carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than Earth, which turned our sister planet into an inferno. But how did it get there?

Speeding through the Universe and leaving a wake of new stars, this runaway supermassive black hole is likely the first among thousands.

Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here’s why that’s an extraordinary feat.

Never stop looking at the skies in wonder.

Yoga is more than just standing on your head. It’s about uniting with the divine.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.