According to the legend, the ancient text was made by a sinful monk in one night, after making a deal with the devil to avoid ...

“If you go to our sun, you have 15-million- [degree] temperatures,” Schweda explained. “The hottest stars [are] 100 million.

You’d think there would be a law against this, and scientists thought there was, but somehow it happens, and it could help ...

To make this thousand-color map, astronomers used over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer ( MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. More than 100 exposures were stitched in ...

T he animal world is full of contradictions, from tiny mouse-deer that are neither mice nor deer, to vampire squid that ...

Zealandia sits in the Southern Hemisphere and is around 5 million square kilometers (1.9 million square miles) big, but 95 ...

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Because of potential water and a source of heat, Olympus Mons has been suggested as a place to look for potential alien life; ...

I n most (but not all) cultures, it’s incredibly rude to ignore a sneeze – it has to be publicly acknowledged with a go-to ...

You might not expect there to be many health lessons from an animal so distant from us in time and evolution, but new ...

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They found that the green roofs can trap over 97.5 percent of microplastics during a heavy downpour of rain. Most of the ...