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Airbnb announced that it expects to become a publicly traded company next year, in a press release made in…

At one of the most important ancient graveyards on Earth in North Dakota, paleontologists unearthed the fossilized…

The world’s biggest fish is the mysterious whale shark, which can grow as heavy as 40,000 pounds and as large as 60…

On the way to its final orbit around Earth, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has…

I think I’m going to let this one speak for itself:

Are you this guy? Are you this goblin? Email us. We have questions.

High-temperature electricity without resistance could revolutionize electronics. It could take less energy to move…

There’s an eerie and incredibly rare phenomenon witnessed by few that has long puzzled scientists: ball lightning.…

Praying mantises see the world in three dimensions in a way that’s completely different from how vertebrates…

Nature’s beauty can originate from the most unlikely places. Take leech cocoons, the sacks in which leeches lay…

This weekend, for the several billionth or so time in Earth’s history, the Moon will be in the part of its orbit…

Although mirrors have been around for thousands of years, a German chemist named Justus von Liebig made a…

There’s an existential beauty in the fact that everything on this Earth will eventually fall into decay; that our…

Praise Cthulhu! NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just delivered the most incredible images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot—and…

In news that is sure to vindicate chemtrail truthers, NASA has finally delivered on its longstanding promise to…

If David Lynch designed a planet, it would be Uranus. Much like every episode of Twin Peaks: The Return, Uranus is…

Fangblennies are tiny reef-dwelling fish only two inches long that look like they came from some adorable deep-sea…

Costume-changes during a live performance are fast and frenetic, limiting how elaborate makeup and outfits can be.…

We don’t understand quasars all that well, but are pretty certain that these incredibly bright lights belong in the…