Nature always has the potential to outdo human imagination. From across oceans, forests, deserts, and isolated islands, there are actual living creatures strange enough to appear mythical. They have ...
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The result is a thoroughly entertaining sci-fi odd-couple action-comedy that keenly balances the fresh and the familiar. The ...
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What's in and out for 2026

And there you have it. Another year, done and dusted, and I would say for many of us: Thank God. It’s too much pressure, existing in a year that is, numerically, the quarter marker of a century, and ...
A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...
Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum ...
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From fish scaling waterfalls to monkeys stealing babies these animal discoveries in 2025 revealed how much we still do not ...