Dinosaurs continue to fascinate, even after their extinction. In fact, a North Dakota excavation had one paleontologist rethinking the dinosaurs' extinction.
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You've probably heard of mental illnesses like depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and social anxiety disorder. But have you heard of climate anxiety?
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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... fully-grown, adult human with a near 30-foot wingspan? What exactly would happen if humans could fly?
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Humans have been fascinated by objects in the night sky since ancient times. What happens when a planet is in position of opposition? Read on to find out.
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On October 25, 1921, a major hurricane walloped Tampa Bay in Florida. Here's the story of the eccentric waterside attraction destroyed in the event.
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Hurricane Ian pummeled Florida in September, 2022, threatening this Tampa lighthouse that weathered a similar destructive hurricane back in 1921.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen famously created Microsoft. Here's how the two tech pioneers were able to work in a university lab as high schoolers.
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In a stunning paper from Nature Neuroscience, a new set of researchers confirms what many scientists have feared for years. Let's take a look.
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While lower blood pressure may be good for health, low barometric pressure over the ocean is not so good. Here's barometric pressure in hurricanes explained.
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Some make light of how certain areas seem to be especially prone to dramatic weather events. In Tampa's case, geography plays a huge part in its storm risk.
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Today, we identify and remember various significant storm activities by naming them -- Hurricane Katrina, for one -- but a 1921 hurricane lacks its own name.
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An incoming natural disaster like a hurricane doesn't necessarily mean you have to be caught flat-footed, especially when it comes to your pets.
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Cleanliness is next to godliness, or so the saying goes. It's usually pronounced regarding humans and soap, but wild creatures also clean themselves.
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Researchers are uncovering another very unusual way mountains can form, and this strange, liquid process appears to be responsible for the Andes.
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NASA just sent a "box-shaped" spacecraft right into an itty-bitty, 160-meter-long (about 530 feet) asteroid moonlet named Dimorphos. Here's what happened.
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Something there is in a human that reacts positively to the very young, even of another species. So why do people toss baby birds off cliffs?
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Marie Curie's accomplishments live on in the science world, but the same danger that led to her death still haunts her work and will for 1,500 years.
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Evolution may have given Homo sapiens two eyes, but over the millennia, philosophers, mystics and clerics have longed for the development of a third.
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Land-based prehistoric life seems to get the really big-budget movie treatment, but megalodon has attracted some scientific attention of its own lately.
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Turtles and tortoises are very similar animals often considered to be interchangeable. Here's the real difference between turtles and tortoises.
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Astronauts aren't typically known for their practical jokes, but one astronaut once pranked everyone aboard a space shuttle with a fake cockroach.
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Fast radio bursts, observed by a telescope in China over the course of a couple of months in 2021, may disprove what little we know about the space phenomenon.
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The massive, majestic Mississippi River has been inspiring artists and businesses for generations. Certainly it's big and it's wide, but how fast is it?
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In 1981, NFL fans who tuned into the Bengals-Chargers game in January witnessed the coldest football game in the sports league's history.
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It's a frequent storytelling device -- someone on the verge of death re-experiences important moments in their life, "flashing" before their eyes. Really?
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Depending on your source, it sometimes feels like most of the natural world is conspiring to kill you, with toxicity around every corner. Is there a difference?
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Start digging in the yard -- maybe a new garden, or beginning a building project -- there's no telling what you might find. Or what size it might be.
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