These 4,000-Year-Old Termite Mounds Can Be Seen From Space
The previously undetected array occupies a space equal to the size of Great Britain.
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The previously undetected array occupies a space equal to the size of Great Britain.
One of the strangest things that can sicken us is even scarier than we knew.
What lessons from Earth’s colonialist tragedies can we apply to our interplanetary future?
Be careful how you carry meat when you’re walking by a jumping cholla cactus.
Blockchain is meant to be secure – but new research warns that quickly advancing quantum technology poses a vulnerability.
After a five-year-long whittling-down process, NASA has opted for the crater and its potential ancient river delta.
Biologists have known about hemimastigotes for well over a century, but only now can these wee beasties be officially slotted into the evolutionary tree of life.
No, wombats do not have square-shaped bum holes, but nice try.
What’s remarkable is that it’s the first to be discovered in our own galaxy.
However, the interpretation of these findings is where things start to get tricky.
It's not on the same level as, say, melting polar ice caps, but your nasal passages may disagree with that assessment.
The Earth around the Mariana Trench, which contains the deepest point on the planet, could be slurping up at least 4.3 times more water than we thought.
A Virgin Orbit plane took off with a rocket under its wing on Sunday, marking a success for the company that hopes to provide satellite-launching services.
It’s nicknamed the “humongous fungus”.
Could we build a real-life Millennium Falcon? We rank 15 well-known spaceships from science-fiction by which one we could build in real life.
Yes, life was tough for Neanderthals—but the new research suggests life wasn’t any less tougher or violent for contemporaneous Homo sapiens.
