The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometres thick on average and covering nearly…
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What it is: The Antlia Cluster of galaxies (also called Abell S636)Where it is: 130 million light-years distant in the…
The Mariana Trench (sometimes called Marianas Trench) is a mysterious and extremely deep oceanic trench. Plunging deeper than Mount Everest…
When bats aren’t flying, they often dangle from cave ceilings or the undersides of bridges. But why do bats sleep…
Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives.…
In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers…
How much does a black hole change in a year? Scientists may now have an idea, after taking a fresh…
Japanese scientists have created the first-ever long-term dataset about Earth’s entire atmosphere, stretching all the way to space.They hope the…
Melting ice high up in the Rocky Mountains has revealed an impeccably preserved forest, frozen in time for thousands of…
Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of gold and silver coins by the remains of a centuries-old synagogue in Israel, near…