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Rising above a desert plateau near Cairo are three giant pyramids. The most famous of them is the Great Pyramid, and together, they’re the only structure among the Seven Wonders of the World that is ...
Learn more about what a star’s color means and while you’ll never see a twinkling green star in the night sky.
Engineered viruses using bacteria as a Trojan horse could be the next big thing in cancer treatment.
Learn more about early marine animal witness accounts that likely fed mermaid and other sea monster legends.
Do spiders sleep? Yes, they do. Learn how studies show that spiders have sleep phases very like those in mammals, and one of ...
In Article Audio PlayerWill the Phoenix Lander End Up a Hero-bot or a Pile of Trash? Many landers have tried to touch down on the Red Planet. Few have succeeded.
Learn about mice babies that were born from stem cells previously frozen on the International Space Station, which could one day lead to human reproduction in space.
The Kronosaurus was a massive marine predator with a fearsome jaw, big enough to swallow an adult human whole. They had huge teeth — about 12 inches long from the base to the tip, which they used to ...
Take a tour of Chrysalis, a massive, cylindrical spacecraft designed for the Project Hyperion Design Competition.
Learn more about the new study focusing on how the brain can send targeted bursts of dopamine, leading to advanced treatments ...
Is It Possible To Dig All the Way Through the Earth to the Other Side? You'd need a pretty big drill to make it through Earth's crust.
Learn more about the Dunedin Study and how an algorithm could predict your biological age just by looking at an image of your brain from an MRI.