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A Three-Week Course on Troubadours Is Starting This April
What did it actually sound like when a medieval poet-composer performed at a twelfth-century court?…
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What Actually Attracts Mosquitoes to You Has Nothing to Do With Sweet Blood
Most people assume mosquitoes bite them more than others because of something in their blood — too much sugar, the…
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Tricahue Parrots Are Nesting Again Near Santiago After 15 Silent Years
For more than 15 years, the tricahue parrot was essentially a ghost in Chile’s Metropolitan…
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A 30-Year-Old Venus Image Just Revealed a Tunnel Nobody Expected
Thirty years after NASA’s Magellan spacecraft began mapping Venus through thick clouds of sulfuric acid,…
Science
Two Supermassive Black Holes Are Heading for a Collision Earth Will Feel
Some 500 million light-years away, two supermassive black holes are locked in a slow, spiraling…
Science
Ancient DNA Revealed Who Was Really Buried in This Anglo-Saxon Grave
Fourteen hundred years ago, two children were laid to rest together in the English countryside…
Environment
A Shark Filmed in Antarctic Waters Is Forcing Scientists to Rethink the Southern Ocean
Scientists assumed sharks simply didn’t belong in Antarctic waters. That assumption just changed — and…
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Bolivia Is Releasing a Rehabilitated Jaguar — And It Could Rewrite Conservation
Bolivia is about to do something it has never done before — open a gate…
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The Colorado River May Have Pooled and Spilled to Carve the Grand Canyon
One of the most visited natural wonders on Earth has kept geologists arguing for decades…
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Medieval People Ran Far More Than Historians Once Assumed
Did people in the Middle Ages actually run? It sounds like a strange question —…
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What Stephen Hawking Said About His Own Mind That Still Stays With People
What if one of the most famous unsolved problems in all of physics — a…
Environment
Scientists Reexamined Sue the T. Rex and Found a Clue Nobody Expected
Everyone thinks they know Tyrannosaurus rex. Massive. Terrifying. The undisputed apex predator of prehistoric North…
Environment
He Thought It Was Gold — It Turned Out to Predate Earth Itself
A rock that weighs roughly 37.5 pounds, stretches about 15 inches long, and feels like…
Environment
158 Giant Tortoises Just Returned to Floreana After 180 Years Away
A species can vanish from an island for nearly two centuries — and still find…
Science
The Most Complete Map of the Cosmos Still Leaves Scientists Without Answers
Something doesn’t add up in our understanding of the universe — and the most thorough…
Science
Natural Selection Is Still Shaping Humans — And Redheads Are Proof
Nearly 500 genes in the DNA of West Eurasians have been shaped by natural selection…
Science
Artemis II Looped the Moon and Most People Missed What Made It Historic
For the first time in more than 50 years, humanity sent people back to the…
Environment
NASA Captured This Star Behaving Strangely — And No One Knows What Comes Next
A star roughly 1,540 times the size of our Sun — sitting 160,000 light-years away…
Science
Lobsters Feel Pain Says New Study And Scientists Want Boiling Banned
What if the creature you dropped into a pot of boiling water could actually feel…
Science
The Humanoid Robot That Makes Your Bed and Cooks Breakfast Is Here
What if the most dreaded part of your week — the cooking, the cleaning, the…
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Ancient Subduction Zones May Hold the Key to Finding Rare Earth Elements
The minerals powering your phone, your electric car, and the wind turbines generating clean energy…
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Lystrosaurus Laid Eggs to Survive — And a Fossil Embryo Just Proved It
A 250-million-year-old fossilized egg — curled-up embryo still inside — has just rewritten what scientists…