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PLACES

For decades, “life on Mars” has lived somewhere between science fiction and science hope. Every rover, lander, and orbiter has inched us closer—but always stopped short. Then, quietly, NASA scientists revealed something that might finally tip the scales. Not proof, not fossils—but something far more powerful: evidence that looks alive.

HISTORY

Right now, our solar system is hosting a guest from beyond. Astronomers call it 3I/ATLAS, and its size alone makes it a once-in-a-lifetime discovery for space science.

THINGS

New age dating of a boomerang found in a Polish cave has archaeologists abuzz that it could be the oldest boomerang on Earth.

HISTORY

Quantum entanglement means that two particles act like twins, always remaining in agreement, even if the universe separates them. The moment you check one, the other reacts instantly. Scientific results continue to defy what we thought was possible.

HISTORY

The astronomer's secret sits in museum drawers. Tycho Brahe charted the night sky and changed our view of the cosmos, but laboratory fragments tell another story entirely. He has pushed chemical boundaries in ways historians never suspected.

SCIENCE

The ocean floor was covered with ice for who knows how long. Then, one day, it wasn’t. And in that bare stretch, a whole ecosystem blinked into view.

HISTORY

A supercomputer modeled Earth's climate 250 million years from now. The results showed extreme conditions under which mammals, including humans, might not survive. Scientists began investigating and considering what this could mean in the far future.

HISTORY

Nature keeps her oddest secrets well hidden. Some animals are so peculiar, that science missed them entirely until recently. Transparent heads, ultraviolet vision, bodies without lungs. Yes, these sound like cryptid descriptions but they do exist.

HISTORY

Although World War I ended over 100 years ago, it continues to define history in many ways. Here are some of the forgotten heroes from that pivotal conflict.



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