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A glimpse of home was among the last images Voyager 1’s cameras ever sent

Roman concrete piers built along the Mediterranean coast 2,000 years ago are still…

A black bear's heart drops from roughly 55 beats per minute to as few as 8 during…

Deep beneath Svalbard in a frozen Norwegian mountain, a vault holds seeds from almost…

Every winter, a single beluga whale in the Arctic will dive to 700 metres and stay…

Caribou in northern Canada travel up to 5,000 kilometres a year, a rhythm so reliable…

A black hole does not merely bend space; it bends time, pulling it so severely that at…

Elephants hold what many consider funerals, returning repeatedly to the bones of their…

In 1970, mountaineer Reinhold Messner descended Nanga Parbat convinced a third climber…

Salmon returning to the stream where they hatched are not following a map anyone drew…
