The photic zone is the wonderful in-between world where sunlight provides energy to the ocean before it plunges into absolute ...

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To do so, you simply draw an imaginary line from the top point of the crescent, past the bottom point of the crescent, and down until it hits the horizon. In the Northern Hemisphere the point where ...

After detecting the unusually bright signal, astronomers checked observations from another telescope, and found an unexpected ...

Both species are small as sharks go (though not the smallest) growing to about 50 centimeters (19.7 inches) – that’s about 11 ...

To test what was going on, Hanke and colleagues designed three computer simulations: one simulated the open sea, with dots ...

Legend has it that Giant’s Causeway (Clochán an Aifir in Irish) was built by the Irish giant Finn McCool, also known as Fionn ...

Is a “gut feeling” real? Can sheep livers predict the future? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of our e-magazine.

The Oldowan tools are the oldest examples of technology ever discovered, and we might be a step closer to knowing who made ...

We will never hear the po‘ouli honeycreeper’s song again, but we can learn from its genetic code.” ...

In short, Leon’s case is based not on unethical or illegal business practices – though it does include those allegations as ...