Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

The Giza Pyramids are among the best documented construction projects of the ancient world, yet a stubborn slice of popular culture still credits them to visitors from another planet. I want to ...

Every elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. They play a crucial role for the animals, which have thick skin and ...

In the valley, everything echoes. When a truck hits a pothole on Business Route 6, a car engine backfires on Wildcat Road or ...

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could exist in principle in distant stellar systems. With the right engineering ...

Every society that survives catastrophe eventually turns—consciously or instinctively—to art: to theatre, folk song, ...

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ICE and Border Patrol close sophisticated La Nueva Empresa cartel tunnel under Rio Grande connecting Juárez to El Paso.

This extraordinary diner is the final wonder of the great Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who dreamt it up at the age of 103. And it’s a great place for a sunset kombucha and gin ...

Hell’s Half Acre, an otherworldly alien landscape in a remote section of central Wyoming is reopening in May. The area was ...

A scientist at the University of Glasgow has delved into the possible existence of massive hypothetical energy-harvesting structures called Dyson spheres. In a new study, they showed that both stellar ...

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