In December 1911, Roald Amundsen and his crew reached the South Pole, beating his rival, Robert Falcon Scott, by 35 days.
The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete.
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Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.
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Archaeologists diving off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, have discovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old "pleasure barge" ...
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New images taken with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii confirm that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gotten brighter ...
A new study reveals an unknown species of whiplash squid burying itself upside down in the deep sea — a first-of-its-kind ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...
A thick layer of more than 12 miles of rock may explain why Bermuda seems to float above the surrounding ocean.