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In space, no one can hear you scream. But just because sound can’t travel in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the ...

Julian Treasure is a sought-after and top-rated international speaker. Collectively his five TED talks on various aspects of ...

While warmer months offer plenty of fun activities like beach trips, hikes, and sitting on your porch, they also bring pesky mosquitoes. According to NPR, the warmer, wetter weather is helping ...

Boldly going where no Predator film has gone before, Predator: Badlands flips the franchise script, putting the Predator (aka Yautja) front and center. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, the same visionary ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The historian Rob Boddice sat cross-legged on his couch in Montreal on a frigid day last winter and conjured ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a ...

Scientists believe they have detected lightning on Mars, thanks to the sensitive microphone aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover. The discovery was made by "eavesdropping" on the planet's whirling winds.

As the planet warms, the world’s glaciers are melting faster than snow can replenish the ice. That has implications for sea level rise, ocean currents, and global weather patterns. But collecting data ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Thanks to HoYoverse, I got the opportunity to play a closed test of Petit Planet, and after ...

A novel unified hydrodynamic model proposes a single mechanism to explain the contrasting equatorial jet stream directions on gas giants (eastward on Jupiter/Saturn) and ice giants (westward on Uranus ...

An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...