The captain sounds the alarm. The waters around the ship rumble. Strange lights from deep below inch closer and closer to you. Something is emerging from the Mariana Trench, and it does not belong on ...

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We look back with a strange mix of fondness and horror at the things we once considered totally normal. So, grab your Cabbage ...

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

Researchers have rediscovered a 77-year-old recording of a haunting song that now has been determined to have come from a ...