Helium - an element that plays a critical role in science and medicine - is becoming more and more difficult to find. At the same time, the U.S. Geological

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Researchers helped mice stay mighty with an experiment to counter the effects of microgravity. The gene treatment might also enhance muscle and bone health on Earth — and in humans.

With all the time and energy cartographers spend preparing maps, it makes sense that they would want to protect their investment. One of the ways they do so...

human settlement in India

specialist responsible for the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic

Kidnapping and double homicide in Barron, Wisconsin in October 2018

At a Guardian Live event in Glasgow, actor Brian Blessed recalls a trip to the magnetic north pole where his hair stood on end and he had an unlikely encounter with a polar bear. This clip contains strong language.

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JarJar originally created this topic for 2 reasons, both co-inside with each other. First off, Medallion Man, the creator of the original one has not been online for over 6 months. And secondly the original one is extremely out of date. We still havent made…

The Internet is a huge place. Some parts of it are awesome, but others are...less so. And falling squarely in that latter category is the ancient .su domain, once the cyberhome of the Soviet Union. It's not exactly well maintained, or well policed, which…

social experiment on the spread of Nazism

The famous escapist Harry Houdini dedicated part of his carreer to the discovery of spiritists' scams, which led him to meet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A remotely operated vehicle caught the moment a rarely seen deep-sea octopus ate a jellyfish and dragged its tentacles, possibly to use for defense.

1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson

Societal norms often dictate the products people use even if they don’t need them

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To understand how Danny Stewart, Peter Mercurio and their son Kevin became a family of three, you have to go back 12 years to the 14th Street A/C/E subway station in Chelsea.

Bilingual reduced emotional resonance is fairly well-established, but why does it happen? And does that have a knock-on effect for different communities?

The bassist reveals the time he was caught up in the investigation when he was in Joy Division...

type of clock used to wake up a sleeping person at a certain time