Our planet Earth is a mote of dust in the cosmos, carrying its precious cargo of all the life we know exists in the Universe,...
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Humans aren't the only animals with big personalities. Individual traits, temperaments, and coping styles have been observed...
Leave a cheap plastic bag in the sun long enough and it'll eventually crumble into a powdery mess, its petrochemical fragments...
Something strange often happens just before a severe thunderstorm produces a tornado, high winds, or hailstones: A plume of ice...
Huge swaths of our DNA library are made up of non-coding genes that were long regarded as "junk DNA". Recent findings, however,...
Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are something of a mystery for astronomers.
A ghastly bout of food poisoning isn't an experience to forget. The commonly studied microscopic nematode Caenorhabditis elegans...
The outer reaches of the Solar System constitute a strange and mysterious place. Out past the orbit of Neptune, where it's cold...
The hidden scars left on the landscape during ice ages thousands to millions of years ago have now been imaged in spectacular...