A scholar has recently discovered a previously unknown Sumerian myth inscribed on a long-overlooked 4,400-year-old tablet.

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Now, researchers at the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany, have shown that water tornadoes can also provide a surprisingly good analog ...

The reason is simple physics. Since the aerial screw has a larger surface area, it moves slower to create the same lift and, ...

Natural antidepressants are pretty much what it says on the tin – dietary supplements and herbal products that some claim to be natural alternatives to standard treatments like synthetically produced ...

Ufology has always been a fringe field divided between those curious about UFOs and those who believe in cover-ups, but now ...

For some people, the significance of Lake Bosumtwi goes beyond geology. Sacred to some members of the local villages, its ...

So how do rockets move in space? With a little help from Newton's third law and the conservation of momentum, of course.

The team reported that a very small proportion of the trials led to female-female sexual behavior in the crickets, with two ...

It’s difficult to think this super predator – the terror bird – had been predated or scavenged by a large caiman!” ...

Waking from non-REM sleep, in contrast, is more of a gradual process – and it has an extra step, with alertness starting slowly in a central “hub” in the brain. It’s only after that that the standard ...