A new glass sponge species is so strange that has been given the name named Advhena magnifica, which means "magnificent alien ...

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Santa lives at the North Pole. Full-time. The same place where the average winter temperature is minus 40 degree Celsius and ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight—the death of a low-mass star—in this image of the Calabash Nebula ...

Scientists have created the first detailed maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary, where solar material breaks free and ...

A new phosphorescent material remembers mechanical stress and resets with ultrasound, enabling reusable optical sensors to ...

For a quarter century, cosmologists have treated dark energy as a fixed, featureless pressure that steadily drives galaxies ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

If a major disaster like Fukushima or Chernobyl ever happens again, the world would know almost straight away, thanks to an array of government and DIY radiation-monitoring programs running globally.

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Housed in a magnificent brick industrial building that practically screams “I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe,” Cabot Mill Antiques stands as a monument to Maine’s rich manufacturing history.