Why Are Watches Usually Set to 10:10 in Advertisements?

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The UK landscape that hid a criminal enterprise

‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics From Raw Data

Spider uses film of air to hide underwater for over half an hour

A Pair of Twins Grew Up in Different Countries, Then Scientists Compared Them

The revealing junk of abandoned Soviet nuclear bases

Today’s H1N1 flu–commonly known as the swine flu–appears to be a direct descendent of the flu virus that caused the 1918 pandemic

A passenger with no flying experience landed a plane at a Florida airport after the pilot became incapacitated

Video: When Ants Domesticated Fungi [9:45]

Hubble Images a Dwarf Spiral with Multiple Mysteries

Thousands of Popular Websites See What You Type—Before You Hit Submit

Video: Turkey Has Built the Longest Suspension Bridge in the World [7:49]

The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician

Fragment of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs may have been found in amber

The Scientists Fighting for Parasite Conservation

The YouTubers are not okay

How to Stop a Conspiracy

Video: Who made these circles in the Sahara? [27:07]

Earth’s Biggest Cave Will Blow Your Mind

Scientists Detect the Biggest Extraterrestrial Earthquake Ever

Smallpox used to kill millions every year. Here’s how humans beat it.

Why Caffeine Affects People Differently

Photos From Russia’s Ongoing Invasion of Ukraine

“Visualizing the Proton” – Physicists’ Innovative Animation Depicts the Subatomic World in a New Way

On this day in 1898, Victorian scientists created liquid hydrogen for the first time in history

Vicky White, Alabama corrections officer who escaped with Casey White, has died in hospital, sheriff says

Scientists Discover Unexplained Abundance of Rare Nuclear Fusion Fuel on Earth

Why human brains were bigger 3,000 years ago

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Went Silent, Leaving Anxious NASA Team in the Dark

Tiny Channels Discovered Inside The Human Skull Could Be Vital For The Brain

Electric eels inspired the first battery two centuries ago and now point a way to future battery technologies

Why ‘De-Extinction’ Is Impossible (But Could Work Anyway)

NASA Releases Ridiculously Sharp Webb Space Telescope Images

Could Humans Grow Food During a Nuclear Winter?

Bats mimic the sound of bees and hornets to scare away predators

How 5 Convicted Murderers Banded Together to Get Out of Prison

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We May Have Caught a Supermassive Black Hole Flipping Its Entire Magnetic Field

More human remains found at Lake Mead as reservoir’s water level plunges

What Dinner Will Look Like in the Next 100 Years, According to Scientists (and Sci-Fi Authors)

This Crater on Mars is Just a Couple of Years Old

First ammonia-powered jet flight in 2023: A roadmap to clean aviation

Under his control

On this day in 1963 scientists gave Earth a temporary ring using 480 million tiny copper needles

A Messy Table, a Map of the World

New Way to Glimpse Distant Worlds Could Give Us Our First Real Look at Exoplanets

We finally know how trilobites mated, thanks to new fossils

‘It’s just gorgeous’: rare deep-sea dragonfish spotted off California coast

How a Prominent Mexican Scientist Wound Up a Spy for Russia

The tale of the domesticated horse

Scientists Follow a ‘Yellow Brick Road’ in a Never-Before-Seen Spot of The Pacific Ocean

Quantum tunneling could drive random DNA mutations, says new study

Rescued Photos from Chernobyl Show Life in Ukraine Before the Disaster

The Alien Invasion of Antarctica Is Only Just Beginning

On this day in 1931 young Colonel Sanders was involved in a shootout in the “asshole of creation”

Hubble reveals surviving companion star in aftermath of supernova

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