For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

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A local resident stumbled upon the remains of the 19,700-year-old beast. Its record-breaking horn offers new insights into life in the Ice Age.

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Iceland just discovered something they'd never seen before, in essentially recorded history for the country. This could be a ...

These enormous moths are nature’s masterpieces. Learn which species are the largest and what makes each one so extraordinary.

In the forests of South Africa lurks an arachnophobe’s nightmare – Nephila kowaci, the largest web-spinning spider in the world. The females of this newly discovered species have bodies that are 3-4 ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

With 11,000 species of insects known in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, how do you write a guide to them? Jim and Leslie ...

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Indonesia’s 1,760-MW Jawa Satu pairs world-record single-shaft scale with liquefied natural gas–to-power integration. A POWER Top Plant winner, it reinforces reliability for the nation’s most critical ...

A woman has been convicted in what is believed to be the world's "single largest" Bitcoin seizure, said London's Metropolitan Police. Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, is a Chinese national who ...