2+ hour, 18+ min ago   (439+ words) Image via Unsplash. “You’d see massive glacier calvings, and you’d just want to cry. But all the guests would be cheering. And you’d be like … ‘can you...

18+ hour, 18+ min ago   (328+ words) Ancient fish traps reveal a long-term food strategy centuries before farming reached Scandinavia....

18+ hour, 52+ min ago   (17+ words) This armor wasn't just for show. It could have seen deadly combat during the epic Trojan War....

19+ hour, 10+ min ago   (1550+ words) Home → Features → Pieces Scientists drew blood from climbers near Everest’s summit and found oxygen levels that should have been lethal. At 8,400 metres above sea level, near the summit of Mount Everest, four climbers submitted to an extraordinary (and uncomfortable) experiment....

20+ hour, 21+ min ago   (899+ words) The city's defenses just won't cut it. New Orleans exists because it bargains with water. The city pumps it, walls it off, channels it, blesses it, fears it, and dances beside it. For more than three centuries, that uneasy bargain…...

19+ hour, 39+ min ago   (796+ words) A new discovery ties myth to place, revealing centuries of cult worship and civic ritual....

20+ hour ago   (234+ words) Sunshine alone may not protect older and darker skinned adults from low vitamin D....

23+ hour, 24+ min ago   (426+ words) Astronomers finally saw the missing link in a black hole’s feeding cycle. A black hole does not simply vacuum up everything around it. Most of the time, even a supermassive black hole — an object millions or billions of times heavier…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (898+ words) Scientists found a new monkey species in Congo's forests. Few humans had ever seen it—but it's already at risk. Finding a new monkey species in the 21st century is exceptionally rare. Primates are among the best-documented mammals, so scientists don’t…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (343+ words) China is developing a wider system for dangerous space rocks....