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Earth from space: Near-lifeless 'Land of Terror' looks...
A 2017 satellite image of the Sahara's Tanezrouft Basin shows the abstract beauty in ancient rock folds and colorful salt flats that...
Why does cotton shrink?
The science of ruining your favorite shirt is more complicated than you might think.
Saturn's planet-wide storms driven by seasonal heating,...
Saturn pumps into space varying amounts of heat based on its seasons, which drives planet-wide storms, data from NASA's Cassini mission...
Human ancestor 'Lucy' was hairless, new research suggests....
Lucy is popularly depicted as being hairy, but new evidence suggests she wasn't. The discovery prompts new questions about the history...
Space photo of the week: Hubble roars back to life with...
The sparkling galaxy NGC 1546 stars in Hubble's first new image since changing to its new "one-gyro mode," ending the telescope's...
32 of the most dangerous animals on Earth
From the tiniest insects to the largest land animal on Earth, here are some of the most dangerous and deadly creatures in the world.
Have giant humans ever existed?
Some humans have always stood head and shoulders above their peers, but there's nothing mythological about these real-life human giants.
Is Jupiter's Great Red Spot an impostor? Giant storm may...
Astronomer Giovanni Cassini observed Jupiter's 'Permanent Spot' in 1665, but new research suggests it's a different vortex from today's...
