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A collection of photos had been sitting unexamined since 2017 somewhere in the enormous Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes, a…
Somewhere in the Sahara Desert in 2011, a fragment of Mars was sitting on the sand, waiting. It had been…
Researchers constructed a labyrinth at Adelaide University. It’s not big; rather, it’s made to fit under a microscope, with channels…
There is something almost defiant about the Rub’ al Khali. It sits in the southeastern stretch of the Arabian Peninsula,…
There’s a particular kind of dread that settles over trading floors on a Friday afternoon when the numbers keep moving…
When people discuss how the UAE passport is once again rising in the world rankings, there is a minor detail…
By all accounts, the floor of Bender’s Cave resembled something from a fever dream. Paleontologist John Moretti could hardly move…
Watching gold, the metal once regarded by entire civilizations as the closest thing to permanent value, decline so subtly is…
On July 5, 2008, a small star in the far-off universe accomplished something it shouldn’t have been able to. The…
On a Monday afternoon, stroll through the subterranean plaza beneath one of the corporate skyscrapers in downtown Los Angeles, and…