Dig into why there is so much trash orbiting Earth, and find out what could happen if the debris continues to accumulate.

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There are over 131 million pieces of debris currently whipping around the planet. They range in size from a grain of sand to the…

Online stereotypes about younger women and older men could be affecting real-world hiring decisions. Researchers have analysed hundreds of thousands of images from places like IMDb and Google Image Search as well as the kinds of online texts used to train…

Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, research reveals.The finding supports evidence that bees experien...

Sea lions help researchers collect video footage of unmapped areas of the seabed around southern Australia, unveiling unseen underwater habitats and previous...

Alchemy might seem to us like the dark, shameful side of chemistry. Yet alchemists, through the pursuit of turning lead into gold via transmutation, were sincerely trying to understand how the world works. And no one shows it better than the great Sir Isaac…

The fate of the last female great auk has finally been solved.Read more: http://scim.ag/4oshW4VCREDITS: (RESEARCH AND IMAGES) CAVILL ET AL./ZOOLOGICAL JOURNA...

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You might take it for granted, but the human ability to walk on two legs is pretty special. It's been argued that basically everything we can do today stems back to the time our…

Catherine the Great presided over a golden age of Russian expansion — but was she a dedicated ruler or a ruthless oppressor?

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Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia for over three decades, used strategic dalliances, military might, and cutting-edge philosophy…

You might not be a firefly (or any other creature known for its bioluminescence), but you too do glow. Some of that glow is simply because you're warm. But at visible wavelengths, most of that glow comes from being alive. It's just really, *really* hard to…

A thought-provoking journey into the intersection of Islamic teachings and contemporary mental health practice with world-renowned Rania Awaad.

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Nearly 6300 meters below the surface of the Caribbean Sea, researchers have observed a curious site: tiny creatures that look a bit like a cross between a Ha...

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Humans have made a hellscape on Earth with climate change, deforestation, and everything else we've done to this planet. Many animals…

Animals have evolved all sorts of tactics to ward off predators and avoid getting munched—but Asian bombardier beetles can hatch an escape plan even after th...

Explore different poverty intervention and aid programs, and how direct cash giving can address a community's needs.

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In 2018, a nonprofit gave every adult in the Ahenyo village $500. Most families had lived in extreme poverty for generations, and this…

In 2002, a research team discovered one of the oldest human ancestors ever, called Sahelanthropus. For over twenty years, most people thought that all they found was a skull. But a few researchers, sworn to secrecy by their peers and the norms of the field…

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In his second lecture, Charles Taylor investigates the essential features that have to be present in any instrument, if a usable musical sound is to be produced.

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Tiny particles of plastic are everywhere today, but a discovery in a museum collection proves that this isn’t a new phenomenon. While combing through drawers...

Tune in for live coverage as a new cargo ship from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) lifts off for the International Space Station.

JAXA's unpiloted HTV X-1 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 8:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday, Oct. 25 (0000 Oct. 26…

Babies don’t babble to sound cute—they’re taking their first steps on the path to learning language. In 2022, a study showed parrot chicks do the same.Althou...