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Darwin's bark spider spins the toughest biological material yet measured, a silk more…

At its birth, Earth had no Moon. Then something perhaps the size of Mars slammed into…

Between 2006 and 2014, a NASA balloon experiment floating above Antarctica picked up…

The ocean produces roughly half of Earth’s oxygen

A giant barrel sponge growing on a Caribbean reef off the island of Curaçao was…

The Greenland shark lives roughly 400 years

The smell of the ocean — that sharp, clean scent people travel thousands of kilometres…

A blind cave salamander called the olm is projected to live past a hundred years, and…

For decades the heavy rocks that carve trails across a Death Valley lakebed were never…

In 1986, John Gottman and Robert Levenson built an apartment-style lab at the…
