Scientists at the University of Melbourne have uncovered for the first time how Australia's iconic Twelve Apostles were ...

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Less than a year ago, astronomers discovered a comet soaring through our sky that was not from our solar system. Although we ...

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During the fall semester of 2025, I taught a graduate seminar entitled “Darwinian Thought and Society.” While teaching should ...

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(via New Scientist) Most people think the multiverse is just about "what-if" scenarios – other versions of you where you took ...

We all know the story. Dinosaurs were roaming the earth, happy as could be, and then our planet met a big asteroid. Thus ...

Imprisoned for heresy, Gerardus Mercator later created a map that transformed navigation forever. We explore why his ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. Former ...

Join cryoengineers Greg Tatkowski and Chris James, along with physicist Daniel Bafia, as they unravel the mysteries of ...