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The longest-running laboratory experiment in the world began at the University of…
Science & Engineering
Sharks have been swimming in Earth's oceans for roughly 450 million years
Science & Engineering
The Sun might look yellow, but seen from space without an atmosphere filtering its…
Science & Engineering
The Pacific Ocean is so vast that it's larger than every continent on Earth combined
Science & Engineering
A day on Earth is described as 24 hours, but the planet has been slowing down for…
Human Factors
The Sahara is usually depicted as the world's largest desert, but because a desert…
Science & Engineering
The Antikythera mechanism, pulled from a Greek shipwreck in 1901, was a…
Science & Engineering
More than 2,200 years ago a librarian in Egypt measured the circumference of the…
Science & Engineering
Mount Everest is the highest point above sea level, but because the Earth bulges at…
Science & Engineering
Between five and six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea nearly dried out
Science & Engineering
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have struck a planet that was already…
Science & Engineering
For 70 years, two large fossil bones sat in a University of Alaska museum drawer…
Science & Engineering
The reason the TV helps you sleep is simpler than most people think
Science & Engineering
A pair of American satellites built to catch the Soviets cheating on a nuclear test…
Science & Engineering