QUICK FACTSName: Memento MoriWhat it is: Table mosaicWhere it is from: Pompeii, ItalyWhen it was made: Circa 50 B.C.The stunning…
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Bowerbirds create stages that make them look bigger to potential partners. Fish and butterflies can flash what looks like a…
Researchers have spotted orcas in the Gulf of California repeatedly attacking and feasting on the livers of juvenile great white…
Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed the remains of a 5,000-year-old building that may have been a temple from the Uruk…
Archaeologists excavating in the French Riviera have uncovered a massive Roman cremation cemetery. Careful work at the site has revealed…
Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as “dassies,” are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible…
The frigid conditions on the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, allow simple molecules in its atmosphere to break one…
Quick factsWhat it is: M82, an edge-on spiral starburst galaxyWhere it is: 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa…
The Bering Strait is a 52-mile-wide (85 kilometers), 165-foot-deep (50 meters) stretch of water between Alaska and Siberia. Today, it…
The hottest science news this week has revolved around the sun, with the arrival of some dazzling new studies concerning…