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P olar bears have become something of an icon for the Arctic. The world’s largest land predators, they are big, they are ...

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A submarine volcano off the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the US is set to blow in 2025. Seamounts like this are providing scientists with the perfect opportunity to study the evolution of early ...

Nick Royal’s image of a male blue ground beetle ( Carabus intricatus) took the Best in Category for 'Research in Action'.

A species’ common name can often be misleading. Koala bears aren’t bears, starfish aren’t fish, and the mountain chicken is ...

This is known as gravitational lensing. The Cosmic Grapes were made 100 times brighter and larger than they would otherwise ...

Solids and liquids turning to gas can create surprising motion, and in the California desert, moving rocks proved that melting ice could do it too.

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In May 1883, Krakatoa awoke and started to rumble with volcanic activity, culminating in an intense eruption on August 27. It ...

According to those documents, on August 22 a "strong bright light was accompanied by smoke and travelled toward a village called 'Dilaver' in the eastern side of Suleymaniyah", while the nearby ...