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What filled the universe in its first microseconds wasn’t gas, dust or atoms

In 1848 an explosion drove a three-foot-seven iron bar clean through the skull of…

Apollo 13 set the record for the farthest humans had travelled from Earth by accident…

The most common type of planet in the known galaxy is one that does not exist in our…

You do not lose most body heat through your head

A 2025 MIT-led study mapped 32,000 skills across 923 occupations and found current AI…

The ancient Greeks calculated the circumference of the Earth around 240 BCE, using…

A meteor shower named for a dragon once produced several thousand shooting stars an…

The pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast it creates a collapsing cavitation bubble…

Saudi Arabia’s NEOM is marketed as the city of the future, but it is being built on…
