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World's oldest drinking straws are 3 feet long and made...
The reanalysis of slender gold and silver tubes found in a Bronze Age burial suggests that they were drinking straws.
Pod of orcas frees a humpback whale from certain death....
A pod of orcas frees an entangled humpback whale off Western Australia. But were they really trying to rescue it?
Melted 'megaberg' A68 dumped 1 trillion tons of water into...
A new study of iceberg A68 (once the world's largest) charts its entire doomed journey, and shows exactly when it started to melt...
Astronomers propose building a neutrino detector out of...
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment would turn a massive swath of the Pacific Ocean into nature's own neutrino detector.
Who were the Knights Hospitaller?
With St. John the Baptist as their figurehead, the Knights Hospitaller developed into a powerful religious-militaristic group during...
Patton: The US Army's toughest and most feared WWII general?
Inside the latest History of War magazine: Why was "Old Blood and Guts" feared by both allies and enemies alike?
Bizarre knotted DNA structures linked to cancer in mice
Missing enzymes may cause troublesome knots to appear in DNA.
On the 'doorstep of doom': Doomsday Clock stands at 100...
The hypothetical timepiece known as the Doomsday Clock stands at 100 seconds to midnight — the time that was set in 2020, marking...