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Oldest Ant Ever Found: 113-Million-Year-Old Hell Ant Unearthed In Brazil

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed the oldest...

At the American Museum of Natural History, a Look to Outer Space

This article is part of our Museums special section...

Video: How Fertilizer Poisoned So Much Farmland

For years, a factory offered farmers its sewage as...

A Big Whack That Made the Moon May Have Also Created Continents That Move

Some 4.5 billion years ago, many scientists say, Earth had a meetup with Theia, another planetary object the size of Mars. When the two worlds collided in a big...

El Niño Is Over. What Does That Mean for Summer?

El Niño, the natural climate pattern linked to warmer conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean, has ended, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Thursday. The counterpart pattern...

White House Announces Strategy to Keep Edible Food Out of Landfills

The Biden administration has issued, for the first time, a national strategy to combat a major national problem: food waste.Roughly 30 percent of the country’s food supply isn’t eaten,...

Who owns the Moon? A new space race means it could be up for grabs

Getty ImagesWe’re in the midst of a Moon rush. A growing number of countries and companies have the lunar surface in their sights in a race for resources...

Google’s hidden logs detail thousands of privacy breaches

Call them mistakes, mishaps or reckless, a pattern of serious privacy breaches have been leaked from the big tech giant according to Google employee reports. In an era where...

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Microsoft sets May end date for Skype after 14-year run

Before there was Zoom, Skype was the dominant internet-based phone and video service for the masses. After 22 years of service (14 years...

Dark energy findings could rewrite our understanding of the universe and its fate:

Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate...

Highlights From Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s Return to Earth

They set off to spend eight days at the space station. The trip lasted nine months.On Tuesday, two NASA astronauts who had been in...

Nasa Astronaut Sunita Williams Begins 45-Day Rehabilitation Programme To Tackle Likely Health Challenges After Prolonged Stay In Space

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have begun a 45-day rehabilitation program,e to help them adapt to Earth's gravity after spending nine months...

Geriatric Penguins Get a ‘Retirement Home’ at New England Aquarium

Good etiquette is expected at meal time in the penguin colony, but the diners with the best manners are found on a new, special...