An outbreak of 10 serious Listeria infections that led to hospitalization has been linked to several ready-to-eat products, including snack…
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A provocative new hypothesis suggests that Yosemite Valley was carved by an ancient volcano and a disappearing river, both of…
Scientists have revealed how much of the vast deep ocean floor humankind has observed, and it’s a staggeringly small amount.According…
An ancient tomb in Greece does not hold the remains of Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great, as…
Australia is rather isolated today, but around 120 million years ago, the island straddled the polar circle and formed a…
The idea that Earth may operate as a single, self-regulating, living organism has existed for decades, emerging in the 1970s…
Name: Hatnefer’s Heart ScarabWhat it is: Gold and serpentinite rockWhere it is from: Thebes (modern-day Luxor), EgyptWhen it was made:…
From above, Antarctica might seem like a cold, flat and desolate landscape — and it certainly is. But beneath the…
In 1785 English philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed the perfect prison: Cells circle a tower from which an unseen guard can…
What it is: Arp 184 (NGC 1961)Where it is: 190 million light-years distant in the constellation Camelopardalis, the giraffe.When it…