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'This is the cost of living in seawater': The ingenious...
In this extract from the new book Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works, oceanographer Helen Czerski explains the ingenious way turtles...
The Fram: A Victorian expedition to the North Pole that...
British physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski explains how Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen's expedition to the North Pole was...
Mythical hellhound and sea-centaurs painted on 2,200-year-old...
Paintings of sea-centaurs, the hellhound Cerberus and other mythical beings cover a 2,200-year-old tomb unearthed near Naples in Italy.
Is anything harder than a diamond?
Diamonds are naturally hard, but is there anything from Earth, space or even a lab that's harder?
NASA's Parker Solar Probe smashes record for fastest man-made...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has reached a record-breaking speed as it gets a gravitational assist from Venus to fall closer to the sun's...
Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a 'cosmic tadpole'...
Amid the Soul Nebula's harsh red light, a cocoon of gas holds baby stars in the making in this ethereal new Hubble telescope image.
Most detailed human brain map ever contains 3,300 cell...
The most detailed atlas of the human brain ever devised includes many cell types we've never seen before.
NASA will fire 3 rockets directly at the solar eclipse...
NASA researchers plan to launch three rockets carrying scientific instruments toward the moon's shadow on Oct. 14, to study changes...
