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The National Science Foundation emailed a statement to explain why it would dismantle a portion of one of the most ambitious ocean monitoring systems ever built. The statement said the move is not a ...

Pumped for the World Cup? So pumped that you want to achieve eternal glory with your favorite national team in a video game? Well, times have changed, and long gone are the days of specific, legit ...

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Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in the north, to the Cape region in the south. Join presenter, Chioma, as she ...

Great Basin National Park feels like you have the whole park to yourself. That’s just one reason why it’s so special.

Great Basin National Park feels like you have the whole park to yourself. That’s just one reason why it’s so special.

Deep below the Tyrrhenian Sea offshore Italy, scientists drilled into what they thought would be dark mantle rock—and found pieces of granite that seemingly had no business being there. Those ...

A new video dissects how an obscure novel from 2007 provided the complete origin story of the Star Trek: The Next Generation era. When Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered in 1987, it was a huge ...