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The stone camel sculptures, seven in total and originally uncovered back in 2018, far predate more famous monuments.
The cause of the recent uptick in radiation is unknown, but speculation about another catastrophe at Chernobyl is hyperbolic.
U.S. states vary radically in terms of electricity generation. Vermont is the cleanest, while Delaware is the dirtiest.
The universe is only 13.8 billion years old, but we can see back 46.1 billion light-years. Here's how the expanding universe does it.
Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.
As Russia’s youth welcomed a new era of capitalism in the 1990s, their parents and grandparents clung to fleeting memories of Soviet life.
A biotech startup has received $15 million in funding to genetically recreate woolly mammoths and rewild them in Siberia.
It follows a well-worn playbook for North Korea.
Cryptocurrency “news” is dominated by enthusiasts and haters. Surely, an intellectual discussion can be had.
The EU is slowly realizing that it cannot count on the U.S. to meet its security needs. Has the time finally come for a European military?
Due to deteriorating health, all Beethoven left behind for his final symphony were some musical sketches.
Smallpox, Ebola, HIV, influenza, the plague, malaria, and a whole host of terrible bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites were cooked up by Mother Nature, all on her own. Apparently, Mother Nature hasn't banned gain-of-function research.
Fossilized footprints found at an excavation site in southwest New Mexico prove humans colonized the continent much earlier than previously thought.
In the perilous mountains of Tibet, archaeologists unearthed ancient hand and footprints that seem to be the creative work of children.