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8d ago
Italy
Italy
All roads in ancient Rome stretched far longer than previously known, study shows
Advances in technology and other newly accessible sources have greatly expanded researchers’ ability to locate ancient roadways.
10d ago
Tom Brady reveals his current dog is a clone of his dead dog
The Fox Sports broadcaster and retired NFL legend says that his dog, Junie, is a clone of a former family dog, a pitbull mix named Lua, who died in 2023.
10d ago
Trump renominates billionaire Jared Isaacman to lead NASA
Trump originally announced Isaacman as his pick in December, then pulled the nomination five months later.
11d ago
The light of 10 trillion suns: Scientists report the biggest black hole flare ever recorded
A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a gargantuan cosmic outburst, according to a new study.
12d ago
Video shows orcas hunting great white sharks and devouring their livers
A pod of orcas has twice been observed flipping young great white sharks on their backsides to stun them, then slicing their sides open.
17d ago
The new face of major hurricanes
Hurricane Melissa followed what has unfortunately become a pattern for major storms: It formed late in the season, intensified rapidly, then stalled near the coast.
18d ago
India conducts cloud-seeding trial to clear New Delhi's smog
The weather modification strategy is an attempt to trigger rainfall, which may temporarily clear the city’s toxic air.
18d ago
Climate change
Climate change
Bill Gates calls for 'strategic pivot' in climate change fight
The Microsoft co-founder said there should be more focus on fighting poverty and preventing disease than curbing emissions.
21d ago
DNA reveals the diseases that devastated Napoleon's doomed army
New research suggests that two surprise pathogens were among the diseases that ravaged the emperor's vaunted Grande Armée.
22d ago
Wyoming dinosaur 'mummies' reveal a surprise: Hoofed feet
Edmontosaurus, which munched plants with its broad and flat snout that vaguely resembled a duckbill, roamed western North America in the Cretaceous Period.
23d ago
Climate change
Climate change
'Functionally extinct': After 10,000 years on the Florida coast, two key corals are dead
In a grim study, researchers conclude that ocean heat killed off two coral species that had been building reefs in Florida since the Ice Age.