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Lightning is one of nature's most brilliant displays and we mostly understand it, but the rare phenomenon of ball lightning ...

According to most historians, the Roman Empire was founded in 27 B.C. and ended with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D. This 500-year window of time saw the rise and fall of bold ...

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Scientists looking at old gharial fossils from Egypt took a reexamined one that was missing its nose, like the Sphinx, and ...

One of the worst parts about getting older is that your joints will inevitably begin to give you trouble, and you can all but ...

We've known about Roman self-healing concrete for centuries, but thanks to a discovery at Pompeii we may finally know the ...

In the 1980s, a bacterium was genetically modified to produce more alcohol and some scientists feared that it could wipe out ...

Colorful pumpkins abound in autumn, with a bit of genetics and specific breeding accounting for the shapes and sizes of all ...

Enterprising scientists have discovered that women have the smellier farts pound for pound, but men tend to make up for this ...

Scientists found that adding poop char into concrete is not just good for the environment, but makes the concrete 42% more ...