Plate tectonics shapes life on Earth, from pushing up mountain ranges to separating species onto distant continents. It also brings plenty of death in the form of earthquakes. Man ...

It started as a joke, but it led to the discovery of a page from an ancient manuscript nobody had seen in decades.

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Current evidence suggests that humans had the capacity for spoken language at least 130,000 years ago. Ever the ...

Divers were searching the Bermuda Triangle for lost WWII planes when they found an odd – and clearly human-made – artifact ...

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Rogue waves were dismissed as nonsense for centuries, until New Year's Day in 1995. Their counterpart – rogue holes – were only proved real in 2012.

He now holds the coveted title of greatest distance covered in a motion-sensing vehicle by a goldfish in one minute.

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In the trolley problem, you are asked whether you would kill one person to save five. Something odd happens when the problem ...

NASA's Perseverance has been exploring Jezero Crater for five years, traveling across the Western Delta, a river structure ...

“We found that the birch tar produced by Neanderthals and early humans had antibacterial properties,” write the study authors ...