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Unit #1: What is Big History
- Pope Says Big Bang and Evolution Does Not Contradict Belief in God
- Americans Really Want NASA Back
- Timekeeping: Why we need clocks and calendars
- 7 Space Mysteries that Scientists Can't Explain
- Neil Degrasse Tyson on the Tooth Fairy and Claim Testing
- What is the scientific method: definition, steps, and pitfalls
- TED Talk: Science in Service to the Public Good
- What Einstein thought about God, the Universe, science and religion
- Stone shrine discovered inside Mexican volcano depicts mythical Aztec universe
- TED-ED: Cambodian Myth of Lightning, Thunder, and Rain
- CLAIM TESTER: New Controversial Idea About Stonehenge Has Archaeologists Shaking Their Heads
- History As Mystery: It Was America’s First English Colony. Then It Was Gone.
- TED-ED: The Universe in a Grain of Dust
- Scale: How Long Would It Take to Cross the Milky Way at Light Speed?
- Origin Stories/Claim Tester: Meet the Worshipers Who Believe They’re Aliens in Human Form
- Claim Tester: The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth
- Origin Stories/Claim Tester: Is there any truth to the legend of King Arthur?
- History as Mystery: Airtight Iron Coffin Found in Queens Held a Mysterious 19th-Century Mummy
- Robbed of Nobel, Female Physicist Blazed Her Own Amazing Trail: Watch Her Speak Tonight
- Want to combat scientific disinformation? Here’s how
- LBH of Archaeology through the Maya Civilization
- Claim Testers: 50 Great Claim Testers
- Claim Testing: TED Talk: How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation
- Truck crashes into Easter Island sacred statue
- Companion Piece to The Power of 10: Your Cosmic Address Is the Trippiest Thing You'll Learn Today (Video)
- Disciplines (Forensic Artist): This Stone Age man's jawless skull was found on a spike. Here's what he looked like.
- Interdisciplinary Approach: Found: The Wreck of a Ship That Carried Enslaved Maya from Mexico to Cuba
- History as Mystery+WDYK/WDYA: The world’s most mysterious book
- The Importance of Claim Testing & Science: Bill Nye to flat Earthers and science deniers: 'It affects all of us'
- Disciplines: National Geographic Forensic Archaeology
Unit #2: The Big Bang
- Something to watch for from the Hadron Collider
- Pentaquarks
- New Telescope Could Show Us the Beginnings of the Universe
- Scientists built the most powerful physics machine on earth to study the fate of our universe, and it may break the laws of physics
- Study May Have Found Evidence of an Alternate Universe
- Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe 1 Mile Below the Earth's Surface
- How Two Astronomers Accidentally Discovered the Big Bang
- How Deadly Would a Nearby Gamma Ray Burst Be?
- Is Dark Energy a Real Thing? Maybe Not a New Study Suggests.
- Newly proposed particles might solve five of physics’ biggest problems, including dark matter
- The GLEAM team shows us how space would look if we could see radio waves
- What Shape is the Universe Really
- Astronomers Discover More About Powerful Radiowaves
- Scientists Fired Lasers at Antimatter to Answer Question of Why We Are Here
- Physicists Observe the Light Spectrum of Antimatter for the First Time
- First observational test of the ‘multiverse’: Is our universe inside a bubble?
- Astronomers create the most accurate map of dark matter in the Universe
- To birth supermassive black holes in the early universe, some galaxies may have had to be sacrificed
- Researchers found a supermassive black hole choking on its meal
- Radio observatory equivalent to the size of Earth sets its gaze to the center of the Milky Way to image a supermassive black hole
- This is what happens when super strong magnets attract at 200 mph
- LHCb finds a deviation from the Standard Model which may hint at a new particle
- Cold Spot In Universe’s Cosmic Microwave Background May Have “Exotic Origin”
- CERN celebrates completion of Liniac 4, its most powerful linear accelerator
- Hawking Pens Angry Letter about How the Universe Began
- Astronomers Discover A Fast Radio Burst That's Even Stranger Than Ones Detected Before
- Physicists dream up LHC 2.0: a new particle accelerator three times bigger than the current LHC
- Scientists develop largest simulation of the Universe to find dark matter
- The whole universe fits in one image with a special trick of math
- Science Uncovers The Origin Of The First Light In The Universe
- Why Nothing is Something According to Physicists
- Scientists find “Angel Particle” — a particle that’s its own antiparticle
- Was Our Universe Born In Chaos?
- What does the edge of the Universe look like?
- Secrets of universe may lie in a South Dakota gold mine
- The most beautiful theory of all
- 11 Scientific advances of the last 100 years gave us our entire Universe
- New Research Could Challenge Our Fundamental Laws of Physics
- The difference between nuclear fusion and fission
- UK puts Isaac Newton coin into circulation
- Scientists just found half of the universe’s missing matter, and strengthened the Standard Model in the process
- The different types of electromagnetic radiation
- The universe shouldn't exist, scientists say after finding bizarre behaviour of anti-matter
- The Power of Gravity and Its Capabilities
- Mysterious Particles Are Slamming Into Earth—But Why?
- Claim Tester: Mysterious fast radio bursts from space likely twisted by a black hole, researchers report
- TED Radio Hour: Peering Deeper Into Space
- Stephen Hawking: before the Big Bang there was nothing
- In a galaxy far, far away, Dark Matter appears to be missing
- Dark matter might not interact with anything other than gravity
- TED-ED: How Small Are We in the Scale of the Universe?
- Stephen Hawking’s final paper was just published — and it’s mindblowing
- Pressure in protons’ cores is over ten times greater that that in neutron stars
- Scientists confirm that Higgs boson is coupled to bulky cousin in new physics breakthrough
- Ultrafast laser bursts generate electricity faster than anything we know
- 21 Mysteries about Space No One Can Explain
- NASA achieves coldest temperature in space, probes the nature of gravity
- Mysterious Light Flashes Discovered in Deep Space. But What Created Them?
- Atom Smasher Detects Hints of New Unstable Particle
- Scientists Pinpoint Where Dark Matter Is Hiding in the Universe
- The Universe is expanding — gravitational waves could show us how fast
- Could Misbehaving Neutrinos Explain Why the Universe Exists?
- What a Tiny Electron Reveals About the Structure of the Universe
- Scientists Find the 'Missing' Dark Matter from the Early Universe
- Is the universe infinite?
- Microwaved grapes? The science behind igniting pieces of fruit
- The Nebra Sky Disc
- What Happened Before the Big Bang? (The Competing Theories)
- TED Talks Playlist: How We Study Space
- Astronomers finally find the earliest molecule in the Universe
- CLAIM TESTER: Is the Universe Expanding Faster and Younger Than Previously Thought
- From Big Bang to Present: Snapshots of Our Universe Through Time
- How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
- Astronomers Baffled by 'Cosmic Mountain Ranges' Jutting Through the Milky Way
- NASA finally puts the James Webb telescope together
- The Most Massive Neutron Star Yet
- Can Physicists Rewrite the Origin Story of the Universe
- A Strange New Higgs Particle May Have Stolen the Antimatter from Our Universe
- The Universe Could Be 2 Billion Years Younger Than Previously Estimated, According to New Calculation
- Three Win Physics Nobel for Showing Our Place in the Cosmos
- TED ED: Are We Actually Living in a Simulation
- The Universe Might Be a Giant Loop
- We May Finally Understand the Moments Before the Big Bang
- Is the Universe Curved? Not So Fast.
- Observatory Being Named For Vera Rubin
- The growing crisis in cosmology
- Mysterious fast radio bursts solve the universe's missing matter problem
- Tester: We might be living in a gigantic, intergalactic bubble
- Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri to find out
- If The Big Bang Wasn’t The Beginning, What Was It?
- Scientists precisely measure total amount of matter in the universe
- Disciplines: Meet Islam’s Da Vinci: Al-Biruni, father of geodesy, anthropology, and master of pharmacy
Unit #3: Stars & Elements
- Astronomers Spot Light from First Stars in the Universe
- Light From Universe's First Stars Seen
- Found: The Very First Stars
- Monster Star Forms in the Milky Way
- Spectacular Sun Storm Sheds Light on How Stars Form
- How Did the Universe Get Its Stars
- Strangest Star System Found
- Helium Leaking for Earth in Southern California
- Space Station Crosses Sun's Face in New Photo
- Massive Collision of Two Black Holes
- New Black Hole Identified
- Hubble Captures Fantastic Image of the Veil Nebula
- What Do Black Holes Sound Like
- Giant Hole in Sun is 50 Earths Wide
- Rare Merging Stars Set to Explode
- Death Star is Vaporizing Planet
- What the White House Plans to do About Solar Storms
- Massive Starless Planet Home to Molten Storms
- A Cosmic Detective Story
- Hubble Spots Loneliest Galaxy
- Periodic Table's 7th Row Finally Filled as 4 New Elements Added
- Einstein's Gravitational Waves Found
- Gravitational Waves Announced On A Sheet Cake
- Astronomers See Supernova Shockwaves for the the First Time
- Supersized Black Hole Makes Scientist Rethink the Universe
- Ancient Supernovae Showered Earth with Radioactive Stardust 2 Million Years Ago
- The Most Mysterious Star in the Universe (TED Talk)
- Awesome Images of Space
- Earth Pelted with Ashes From Nearby Supernova
- Distant Bubble Seen in Space
- Astronomer Finds a Tailless Comet
- This Backyard Astronomer Has Found Over 300 Asteroids
- How a Blind Astronomer Found a Way to Hear Stars
- One of the Best Explanations For Why We Haven't Found Alien Life
- Stars Explode: Captured on Video for the First Time
- Scientists Find Rare Kind of Star
- Three New Born Stars Discovered
- Mysterious Star Pulses May Be Alien Signals
- Red Spider Nebula Haunts Deep Space Photo
- New Milky Way Map Helps Explain How Galaxies Form
- Supernova Shockwave
- How to See a Star Explode in 2022
- Exotic Carbon Molecule Has 6 Bonds Breaking the 4 Bond Limit
- You Can't See a Black Hole, But This Timelapse Is The Next Best Thing
- Unlikely Crystal Found in Russian Meteorite
- Helium can, in fact, react with other elements to form a stable compound. Better re-write those textbooks
- Hydrogen turned into a metal for the first time. Technology and spaceflight might never be the same
- Astronomers discover the first white dwarf pulsar in history, ending half a century of searching
- Breakthrough chemistry can make tires from renewable sources like corn or trees
- Why Earth’s iron-rich inner core is solid despite it’s hotter than the sun’s surface
- The first ever supernova-in-progress seen shows we don’t quite yet understand them
- Largest ‘artificial sun’ switched on in Germany to research hydrogen production
- 10 Physics-bending Facts about Black Holes
- TED Talk: How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole
- TED Talk: How Radio Telescopes Show Us Unseen Galaxies
- In A First, Gravitational Lens Reveals Magnified And Multiplied Images Of A Type 1a Supernova
- Supermassive Black Holes In Merging Galaxies Are Shrouded In A Thick Sphere Of Gas And Dust
- The weirdest star in space is acting weird again. Is it aliens?
- For the first time ever, we’ve seen a black hole being silently born — no supernova required
- Nothing can escape a black hole’s clutch — and this proves Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (again)
- This Venetian doctor who invented the thermometer also helped shape modern chemistry
- Gravitational waves observed for the third time, opening new, unexplored paths in physics
- The World Is Wasting Our Irreplaceable Helium, And Nobody Cares
- When will the first star go dark?: It hasn’t happened yet in the entire Universe, not even once.
- 60 Years of Starstuff: How humanity discovered where our elements come from.
- What will happen when Betelgeuse explodes?
- NASA’s Hubble Spots Universe’s Brightest Galaxies, Thanks To Gravitational Lensing
- Citizen scientists discover new cold star close to our solar system
- Closest supernova in years brings cosmic fireworks to Earth’s skies
- The sun likely has a lost twin called ‘Nemesis’, as do most stars like it
- Physicists make waves by simulating black hole in a bathtub
- Young Star's Roiling Gas Cloud Shows Chaotic Magnetic Field
- What does it look like when two galaxies collide? NASA might be able to show us.
- ALMA telescope helps to create image of most distant star
- Orbiting supermassive black holes confirmed by astronomers
- Supermassive black hole spotted struggling with its galactic meal
- Astronomers just found the smallest star ever. It’s even smaller than Jupiter
- One of the Brightest Galaxies Ever Found
- This one imperfection in nuclear physics allowed Earth to exist
- Astronomers Capture Wild Intergalactic Gamma Ray Burst As it Happens
- We really are made of star stuff: half of the atoms inside us come from intergalactic space
- NASA will fly jets to chase the upcoming total eclipse to learn more about the sun
- The sun’s core rotates four times faster than its surface
- We’re made of stardust, but heavier elements are made of black-hole-and-neutron-star dust
- The scientific story of how each element was made
- Another Monster Black Hole Found in the Milky Way
- TED-ED: What are Gravitational Waves?
- Some galaxy types are brighter due to ‘hungrier’ black holes, and this could fundamentally change how we study galaxies
- Physicists report new, solid observation of gravitational waves
- Physics Nobel Prize: Gravitational Wave researchers honored by prestigious award
- TED Talk: How LIGO discovered gravitational waves -- and what might be next
- Gravitational waves show us how gold is formed
- Why the gravitational waves splashed by the merger of two dying stars spells a revolution in astronomy
- Researchers observe the first known interstellar comet
- Massive 2.3-gigapixel image of Fornax Galaxy Cluster documents galactic ‘serial killer’
- Sun-Like Star May Have Devoured 15 Earth-size Planets
- ‘Zombie star’ cheats death again and again, dumbfounding scientists
- Two Galaxies Merge Into One
- Astronomers are on the lookout for low-frequency gravitational waves generated by merging supermassive black holes
- Oldest black hole found by astronomers — the gargantuan object lies 13 billion light years away from us
- Ginormous hydrogen clouds whizz around the Milky Way at phenomenal speeds
- Researchers measure the interior of two stars, find our models weren’t quite right
- Astrochemists can now study stars’ magnetic fields using alcohol
- Most distant supernova reveals its secrets to scientists
- Galactic clockwork: Astronomers find all galaxies rotate once every billion years
- Supermassive black hole sends radio echoes of its stellar dinner
- TED Talk Playlist: The lights and sounds of the universe
- Exotic type of supernova wrapped in a ‘cocoon’ burns fast and furiously
- Hubble space telescope captures image of most distant star ever seen
- This Video About The Scale of Black Holes Will Crush Your Poor, Tiny Brain
- Twinkle twinkle… magnified star?
- Phosphorus — a crucial ingredient for life — might be a lot less common in the universe than we thought
- Hubble snaps amazing photo of Einstein Ring phenomenon
- A massive, 'semi-infinite' trove of rare-earth metals has been found in Japan
- Flock of 14 colliding galaxies set to become the largest structure in the universe
- New galactic map shows the positions and brightness of 1.7 billion stars
- Record-Breaking Evidence Just Changed What We Know About Star Birth After The Big Bang
- Astronomers have found the fastest-growing black hole ever seen, and it's got a monster appetite
- Space Lasers Are Shooting Out of This Gorgeous Nebula, Which Means It's Hiding Something
- We Finally Understand What Really Happens When a Black Hole Eats a Star
- Scientists just found the first relic galaxy — it’s remained unchanged since the early universe
- Scientists Witness Aftermath of a Black Hole Destroying a Star
- An amateur astronomer accidentally caught an exploding star on camera—and it gets better
- This Ancient 'Monster' Galaxy Should Have Destroyed Itself
- Stephen Hawking’s final paper suggests black holes store information about missing matter in ‘soft hairs’
- 13 Hyperfast, Alien Stars Are Invading the Milky Way
- What You Should Know About Black Holes
- The periodic tables we almost had
- Hyperfast Shock Waves from a Supernova Heat Atoms to Blazing-Hot Temperatures
- Scientists discover 83 Quasars from the early universe
- IT'S HERE: The First-Ever Close-Up of a Black Hole
- Meet Katie Bouman, The Young Woman Behind The First Image Of A Black Hole
- This is what the photographed black hole’s “neighborhood” looks like
- The photographed black hole now has a name
- All Your Questions About the New Black Hole Image Answered
- TED Talk: Inside the Black Hole Image that Made History
- 9 Ideas About Black Holes That Will Blow Your Mind
- THE UNIVERSE'S FIRST STARS EXPLODED, SENDING OUT POWERFUL JETS THAT PRODUCED NEW ONES
- TED ED: Can a Black Hole Be Destroyed?
- TED Talk: What It Takes to Launch a Telescope
- For July 4th, NASA's Hubble spots wild star erupting in red, white and blue
- Why the Periodic Table of Elements Is More Important Than Ever
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to trio that created today’s lithium-ion batteries
- The largest stars in the Universe (that we’ve found so far)
- Quartz Obsession: Black Holes
- Claim Tester: A Star Older Than the Universe?
- Missing-Link Atoms Turn Up in Aftermath of Neutron-Star Collision
- The Tycho Supernova: Death of a Star
- Astronomers Just Found the First Evidence That 'Mini Black Holes' Exist
- These Mesmerizing Images Show 'Invisible Gravity Waves' Rippling Over Australia
- Astronomers confirm heavy elements are born from neutron star collisions
- When Did the 'Dark Ages of the Universe' End? This Rare Molecule Holds the Answer.
- Quantum tweak extends range of gravitational waves detection
- Stellar Black Hole Is So Massive It Shouldn't Exist
- How Black Holes and Neutron Stars Shine
- First-of-Its-Kind Neutron Star Flashes Bizarre 'Cyclotron Line' at Earth
- Stunning Milky Way image reveals massive, violent eruption 1 billion years ago
- TED Talk: Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars
- The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table
- A giant star is acting strange, and astronomers are buzzing
- The sun is still a burning mystery. That may be about to change.
- Betelgeuse is getting dimmer — but will it explode soon?
- A Little Big History of Betelgeuse
- Weird star explosion is brightest supernova ever seen
- Behold! See the Hubble telescope's iconic 'Pillars of Creation' view in infrared
- What is chromium, the hardest metal on Earth
- Astronomers witness light produced by the merger of two black holes for first time
- The types of stars — a hot, bright journey through the universe
- There's too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from.
- Mysterious 'fast radio burst' traced to a known object in the Milky Way for the first time ever
- Astronomers find ‘fossil galaxy’ buried deep inside the Milky Way
- For the first time, scientists detect the ghostly signal that reveals the engine of the universe
- Powerful cosmic phenomena could strip galaxies of their dark matter
- These researchers want to rearrange the periodic table, and it looks trippy
- Scale: Scientists just mapped 1 million new galaxies, in 300 hours
- What are stars made of?
Unit #4: Our Solar System & Earth
- How to Escape a Black Hole
- Images of Pluto
- Hello Pluto! Spacecraft Makes Historic Flyby
- Continent Rose Above Water 3 Billion Years Ago
- Celestial Giants
- Cannon Earthquakes Around the Red Sea
- Pluto Probe Sends a Treasure Trove of Data
- Double Whammy: 2 Meteors Hit Ancient Earth
- Solar system simulation makes sweet planetary music
- China wants to land on the dark side of the moon
- What happens to objects when they enter a black hole
- Saturn's Moon Has Liquid Water
- New Images of Pluto Suggest the Dwarf Planet is Still Evolving
- How the Earth is Changing the Surface of the Moon
- Scale Model of the Solar System Built in Nevada Lakebed
- Video of Building a Scale Model of the Solar System in Nevada
- Super Blood Moon Eclipse
- Mars May Have Running Water
- Super Moon Pictures
- Pluto's Largest Moon
- Mars Orbiter Spots Carbon Dioxide Avalanche
- The Martian Just Scratches the Surface of Mars Dangers
- After Mars, Hunt for Water Goes Deep Into Space
- NASA Already Growing Food in Space
- Listening for Alien Life
- 11 Times the World Should Have Ended
- Jupiter's Giant Red Spot is Shrinking
- NASA to LA Big Quake Coming
- Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on Halloween
- Mars and Pluto Share Some Common Traits with Earth
- Hunt for Life on Saturn's Moon
- Venus, Jupiter, and Mars form Rare Cosmic Triangle
- Our Planet is the First Among Many Earths
- The Sun in Intimate Detail
- Curiosity Rover Will Be First to Visit Mars Sand Dunes
- Scientists find the Furthest Object in our Solar System
- A Mystery that Settled in Stone
- What Mar's Surface Looks Like Up Close
- Rare Galaxy with 2 Black Holes
- Kepler Comes Back With 100 New Exoplanet Finds
- First Photos of the Tall Sand Dunes of Mars
- What It Looks Like When 2 Galaxies Collide
- Moon's Axis Has Shifted
- Saturn's Rings and Moons May Have Formed When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth
- New Alien Planet Boasts Triple Suns
- The Special Ingredients of the Earth
- Search Narrows for Planet 9
- Planet 9 Takes Shape
- Fossils from Chile show continents were connected earlier than thought
- Trio of Earth-like planets found near ultra-cool star may have the right conditions for life
- Venus May Have Supported Life
- TED Talks: 3 Moons and a Planet that Could Have Alien Life
- Gravitational Waves Explained
- NASA Releases 1000s of Picture of Mar's Landscape
- Another Undetected Asteroid Sails By Earth
- Images from Off World
- Celebrating the Galactic Tick
- Our Galactic Arm May Reach Longer Than We Thought
- Mystery of How Moon Got Its Bulls-eye May Be Solved
- New Theory on Why the Planet Falls into an Ice Age Every 100,000 years
- Saturn's North Pole Has Changed Color, But Why?
- Astronomers Find Hints of Planet Number 9
- Astronomers shoot incredible image of Jupiter-sized alien planet and its parent star 1,200 light-years away
- Seafloor Sensors Provide View of Underwater Eruptions
- Huge Rare Diamond Helps Us Learn About Earth's Mantle
- The Oldest Water in the World Dated to 2 Billion Years Ago
- 6 Surreal Caves on Earth
- Rubies and Sapphires Rain Down On This Planet
- Saturn's Death Star Moon
- Scientists Closer to Solving Mystery of Earth's Core
- Curious Case for Planet Nine
- Mars Eye View of Earth and Moon
- NASA's Mars Explorers Wanted Posters
- NASA's New Missions to Study the Early Solar System
- Hubble Telescope Maps Voyager's Journey
- Last Man to Walk on the Moon Dies
- What Makes a Planet Habitable
- Scientists Study Exoplanets Atmosphere for Signs of Life
- Lost Continent
- TED Talk: What Time is it on Mars?
- Mystery of Mars’ liquid past deepens. New study finds CO2 levels were too low to keep the planet warm
- Martian meteorite reveals volcanic activity on the Red Planet is at least 2 billion years old
- Scientists Have Found What's Been Pushing Our Galaxy Around
- Astronomers discover the first “middleweight” black hole
- NASA’s study of the Louisiana Deltas yields fantastic images of new land being born
- A Long, Long Time Ago: The Geologic History of Yellowstone
- What is sea ice?
- You can search for your own exoplanets — Researchers make huge dataset available
- NASA’s mission to search for life on Europa takes shape
- Scientists Claim They've Found a Massive Lost Continent
- 7 Earth Size Planets Found Orbiting Nearby Star
- TED Talk: Adventurers of an Asteroid Hunter
- The Origins of Water Ice on Mercury
- Astronomers zoom in on baby solar system only 300 light-years away that’s forcing us to rethink planetary formation
- Why Scientists Are So Excited About This Solar Eclipse
- New Theory for Why the Earth was Completely Frozen 700 Million Years Ago
- Landslide spotted on comet for the first time using Rosetta’s images
- Scientists identify new mechanism through which climate change causes droughts and flood
- NASA releases breathtaking gallery of Jupiter photos
- Researchers discover atmosphere around an Earth-like planet
- The Rings of Saturn
- What's Inside the Deepest Hole in the World?
- New super-sized Earth may be close enough to detect signs of life
- Spacecraft survives unprecedented trip between Saturn, rings
- Mystery of the Bloody Glacier Solved
- Citizen Scientists Make a Big Discovery and Name It Steve
- Silica rains helped form Earth’s crust four and a half billion years ago
- Tanzania’s blood-red lake snapped from space by NASA
- Largest lava lake in the solar system makes massive waves
- Fantastic Images of the Crab Nebula
- Scientists find water clouds and exotic, primitive atmosphere on a “warm Neptune”
- The main types of mountains — Earth’s ups and downs
- It used to rain so hard on Mars it shaped the planet’s geology
- A flat-earther brought a spirit level on a plane to prove the Earth is flat. Yeah…
- Physicists propose new, donut-shaped planetary body: the synestia
- There could be an extra, ancient layer of tectonic plates lurking under east Asia
- Latest results from Juno mission reveal massive surprises about Jupiter
- Halos on Mars suggest the red planet may have been hospitable for far long longer than thought
- Curiosity rover finds that its landing crater on Mars could have been habitable for 700 million years
- Here comes the sun: NASA's first mission to the star set for 2018
- Hundreds of Huge Craters Discovered in the Arctic Ocean
- Scorching exoplanet is hotter than most stars. It’s so hot it might even leave a trail of atomic gas like a comet
- How the Arctic Ocean turned salty
- NASA discovers unusual deep pit on Mars’ South Pole
- New Theory on How the Moon Was Formed
- Jupiter is likely the oldest planet in the solar system
- Jupiter now officially has 69 moons. There are likely more to be confirmed
- Curiosity caught on camera climbing Martian mountain by orbiting spacecraft
- Uranus has a magnetosphere that turns on and off every day
- Geology ABC: The Rock Cycle
- There are two kinds of liquid water, researchers find
- What is the Wilson Cycle, builder and slayer of supercontinents?
- The Massive Volcano that Scientists Can't Find
- LIFE ON MARS? STUDY SHOWING MARTIAN SOIL KILLS BACTERIA DIMS HOPES
- NASA releases dazzling images of Jupiter’s Red Spot, makes them open for citizen scientists
- TED Talk: What rivers can tell us about the earth's history
- Here’s where you’d end up if you dug straight through the Earth
- Moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong to be auctioned in NY
- Researchers will drill into one of Earth’s youngest islands to understand how land forms
- The Grand Finale: NASA plans to see Cassini off with a trail of fire as it crashes into Jupiter
- ‘Rogue Planets’ Are Roaming Our Galaxy
- Moon’s mantle contains lots of water suggesting its interior is wet, study finds
- Power lines over Lake Pontchartrain elegantly demonstrate the curvature of Earth
- Big Data predicts 1,500 mineral species are waiting to be found. Ten have already been discovered
- How many moons are there in the solar system?
- Psyche Mission: Journey to a Metal World
- Scientists find 91 new volcanoes miles beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheet
- New tectonic plate discovered off the cost of Ecuador
- Huge asteroid to safely pass by Earth on September 1st, NASA announces
- More than a million years from now, our solar system will briefly house two stars
- Voyager-1 spacecraft: 40 years of history and interstellar flight
- Hurricane Harvey pushed Houston’s crust down by 2 cm
- How does the Earth move through space?
- Gravity map reveals Martian crust might be lighter than we thought
- Main asteroid belt might be a dump for planetary leftovers, new theory proposes
- Cassini, NASA's 13-year Saturn mission, has ended
- After exploring Venus’ dark side, scientists find unexpected weather
- Odd Jupiter-sized exoplanet is hot enough to melt metal but paradoxically pitch-black
- Bali volcanic eruption seems imminent, after massive seismic activity increase
- Hubble snaps the first binary-asteroid comet we’ve ever seen
- Mysterious high-energy cosmic rays fire from outside the galaxy
- Ancient cosmic collissions between small bodies could explain quirk of early solar system formation
- Cassini’s farewell photo of Saturn’s dark side
- CLAIM TESTER: Methane bubbles may have kept Mars warm enough for liquid water billions of years ago
- The moon once had an atmosphere seeded by volcanic eruptions
- Revolutionary optical upgrade enables ground-based telescopes to hunt for alien planets
- The Past and Future of Mars with and without Human Intervention
- Evidence keeps piling up in favor of the mysterious Planet Nine
- TED Talk: What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet?
- NASA wants Curiosity Rover to resume drilling on Mars
- Yellowstone supervolcano erupted twice 630,000 years ago
- NASA discovers Mars has a magnetic tail twisted by solar wind
- NASA releases creepy space sounds for Halloween
- Layers of hydrocarbon haze could explain why Pluto’s so super-cold
- New Earth-sized exoplanet found nearby might be ‘comfy’ enough for life
- Life Can Survive on Mars Far, Far Longer Than We Thought
- Antarctica once had a forest and researchers are trying to figure out why it disappeared
- Scientists track Earth’s ancient, destroyed oceans
- Volcano in Bali has been erupting for over a week, and things might get even worse
- Supervolcano eruptions might be more common than we thought — but there’s still no need to panic
- Huge exoplanet ten times more massive than Jupiter has unique carbon monoxide atmosphere
- Europa’s tectonics might be powered by salt, could sustain life on the moon
- Ever wanted to see how far apart the Earth and the Moon are? Well, now you can
- Cliffs of pure, blue water-ice spotted just below Mars’ surface
- Crowdsourcing astronomy: Citizen scientists discover new rocky planets locked in resonance
- NASA zooms in on one of the oldest galaxies with the help of a cosmic magnifying glass
- The Sun is slowly losing mass as it ages, weakening its grip on the planets
- Unexpected deep-Earth oxidized iron surprises geologists
- Research into nugget-forming bacteria paves the way to better gold extraction methods
- New panorama shows just how amazing Curiosity’s journey has been on Mars
- For the first time, astronomers have discovered individual planets outside of our galaxy
- New research shows that the TRAPPIST-1 planets are even more Earth-like than we thought
- Scientists reproduce superionic ice thought to exist in Uranus’ core
- Jupiter’s Great Red Spot might disappear within 20 years
- Hunt for planets through Kepler’s data with this newly released Google code
- 15 new planets discovered — one is potentially habitable
- Kick-‘em-Jenny: Scientists get rare chance to study volcano as it’s erupting
- Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt is still ‘evolving’
- What is a Supervolcano?
- Meet TESS — he’ll be finding exoplanets for the next few years
- This is our Sun, in three different wavelengths
- NASA’s stunning, 4K ‘Tour of the Moon’ is just as good as visiting the place — if not better
- Earth’s oceans generate a second, tiny, previously-unknown magnetic field, ESA satellites find
- The Moon’s origins may be far different than we thought
- Scientists find diamonds forged deep within a lost, ancient planet of the early solar system
- Watch: real footage of cosmic particle ‘snow’ on comet 67P
- Breaking: Uranus smells like farts
- Recently found exoplanet is so dark, it absorbs 99% of incoming light
- Astronomers find helium in exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time
- NASA lander will study ‘Marsquakes’
- Hubble completes the most complete ultraviolet-light survey of nearby galaxies — and the photos are mind blowing
- Saturn’s tiny moons? It’s all ravioli and collisions
- Astronomers find the first permanent “immigrant” in our solar system
- CLAIM TESTER: Pluto might have been formed by a billion comets
- Curiosity Rover is back to drilling Martian rocks
- The Milky Way galaxy may be much bigger than we thought
- Pluto has frozen ‘sand’ dunes made from methane ice
- Amazing views of Earth captured by NOAA’s latest weather satellite
- NASA finds organic building blocks of life on Mars… along with peculiar methane variability in its atmosphere
- The Earth had continental crust much earlier than thought — potentially life, too
- The moon is moving away from Earth and this is making days longer
- Scientists collect interstellar dust that formed the Earth and solar system
- Scientists find 121 giant planets that might host habitable moons
- Astronomers find three new Earth-sized exoplanets in the same solar system
- NASA just woke up a nuclear-powered probe 1 billion miles beyond Pluto
- Mars’ huge dust storm is now a “global” storm
- NASA updates its plan to deflect dangerous asteroids
- West Antarctic bedrock is rising surprisingly fast — and this may slow down ice melt
- TED Talk: The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system
- Something Big Crashed into Uranus and Changed It Forever
- Scientists see planet being born for the first ever time
- 10 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries About Planet Earth
- The moon may have been habitable during its early history — twice
- Our Local Group Is Being Eaten, And We Just Found The Galactic Leftovers
- NASA will soon launch a probe that will travel through the sun’s atmosphere — here’s what you need to know
- The Coldest Place on Earth
- Underground Lake Found on Mars? Get the Facts.
- Life may be teeming just inches beneath Europa’s frozen surface
- NASA eavesdropped on the Sun, and they made a video so you can hear it too
- We may have just witnessed a close-by star devour the remnants of a planet
- The Milky Way once had a large sister galaxy — but Andromeda devoured it
- A shattered tectonic plate underpins the Tibetan Plateau — explaining the area’s weird earthquakes
- Unique 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite is a remnant of the early solar system
- Bizarre, rogue planet boasts impressive magnetic aurora
- Researchers find Earth’s oldest rocks — and they were probably created by meteorites
- Jupiter’s magnetic field is extremely bizarre, potentially due to unknown processes in its core
- Unique swirl patterns point to the Moon’s magnetic past
- The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Could Be 'Highly Habitable'
- Claim Tester: Pluto is a planet after all, say planetary scientists
- Grinning-Skull Asteroid Set to Whiz by Earth
- Scientists think they’ve found the first moon outside our solar system
- Astronomers Confirm Earth Is Being Bombarded with Ancient, Invisible Energy from Another Galaxy
- Some moons could have moons of their own — moonmoons
- Ice spikes on Europa could be threatening for future missions
- Bizarre, Blue Space Rock Even Weirder Than Astronomers Thought
- World's Deepest Volcanic Eruption Creates Nightmare Garden of Glass
- Tiny Beetle Entombed in Amber 99 Million Years Ago Reveals How Continents Shifted
- Parker solar probe comes closer to the sun than any other man-made spacecraft
- Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun Pose a Big Threat to Earth
- Where Did Earth’s Water Originate? Solar Nebula, Study Suggests
- Hear the wind on Mars for the first time, thanks to the InSight lander
- New Horizons: Nasa probe survives flyby of Ultima Thule
- Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why.
- Moon Rocks: A Little Piece of Heaven
- China Makes 1st-Ever Landing on Moon's Mysterious Far Side
- Snowball Earth: When the Blue Planet Went White
- Earth Once Swallowed Its Own Superocean. Could It Happen Again?
- We’ve just discovered the Earth’s largest drum: our planet’s magnetosphere
- Why Does Earth Have an Atmosphere?
- Our Atmosphere Is So Big It Tickles the Moon
- Claim Tester: TED-Talk: Where did the Moon come from? A new theory
- The Sun Is Spitting Out 'Lava Lamp Blobs' 500 Times the Size of Earth
- TED-ED: Why Are Earthquakes So Hard To Predict?
- Claim Tester: The Moon Might Be the Frozen Leftovers from Earth's Ancient Magma Ocean
- Claim Tester: Half of all water in the oceans may have come from ancient asteroid collisions
- Claim Tester: Something Strange Punched a Hole in the Milky Way. But What Exactly Is It?
- Why Did D-Day Occurred on June 6, 1944? It Was All Because of Unit 4.
- Quartz Obsession: Mount Everest
- This Incredible Orbit Map of Our Solar System Makes Our Brains Ache
- Claim Tester: Table salt found on Jupiter’s satellite Europa, sparks debate about potential life
- The Ocean Is Sinking into Earth’s Mantle, and a Dead Supercontinent Is Partly to Blame
- Star Trek on Mars: NASA spots Starfleet logo in dune footprint
- Project Dragonfly: NASA WILL SEND A HELICOPTER TO HUNT FOR LIFE ON SATURN'S BIGGEST MOON
- Mars may have been habitable more than 4.4 billion years ago
- Methane Discovered on Mars may Originate from Microbial Life or Icy Faults
- 3 Asteroids Are Zipping Past Earth Today
- Hubble Telescope Finds Water Vapor on Exoplanet in Habitable Zone Around a Distant Red Star
- What if the Earth's Magnetic Field Disappeared?
- A Second Interstellar Visitor Has Arrived in Our Solar System. This Time, Astronomers Think They Know Where It Came From
- Lunar dirt can be broken down into oxygen and metals
- Not blue nor red: here’s what Pluto actually looks like
- Saturn Is Now the Record Holder for Most Moons
- Researchers may have spotted the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system
- There's Something Strange Going On Inside Neptune
- Giant geode large enough to fit people inside grew slow and steady
- We Could Be Witnessing the Death of a Tectonic Plate, Says Earth Scientist
- Infographic: Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift
- Long-Sealed Moon Rocks Collected on the Apollo Mission Just Opened for the First Time
- Hoag's Object Is a Galaxy Within a Galaxy Within a Galaxy (and Nobody Knows Why)
- Exoplanet telescope CHEOPS gears up for launch day
- The 'Second Moon' You Didn't Know Earth Had
- Found: A Sluggish Ancestor of the Great White Shark, in Kansas
- NASA's 'Treasure Map' of Water Ice on Mars Shows Where Humans Should Land
- Earth’s magnetic North Pole is now officially moving towards Siberia
- Six Eclipses, Three Supermoons and A Rare ‘Great Solstice Appulse’: A Skywatcher’s Guide To 2020
- How long before our spacecraft reach other stars?
- Mars may be losing water faster than expected
- Claim Tester: A Cosmic Gatekeeper Divides Our Solar System in Two
- China releases more stunning images of the dark side of the moon
- This amazing new planetarium show is like Google Earth for the universe
- Earth has a new geologic age: The Chibanian
- The sun looks like caramel corn in highest-resolution image ever of our star
- Quartz Obsession: Voyager
- New pattern uncovered in mysterious 'fast radio bursts' from deep space
- The lost continent of Zealandia hides clues to the Ring of Fire's birth
- What's up with that rock? China's moon rover finds something strange on the far side.
- New Horizons spacecraft 'alters theory of planet formation'
- Scientists discover BREATHABLE OXYGEN in a galaxy outside of the Milky Way for the first time - the only problem is it's 581 million light years away
- When Voyager 2 Calls Home, Earth Soon Won’t Be Able to Answer
- The Moon Is Different Than Earth at Its Core
- Researchers identify over 300 new minor planets in the Solar System
- Scientists find extreme exoplanet raining with iron
- Claim Tester: Early Earth may have been a ‘Waterworld’ completely covered in a global ocean
- What scientists learned after firing a small cannonball into a near-Earth asteroid
- Canadian diamonds give researchers a glimpse into ancient continents
- Origin Story: New origin story of 'Oumuamua interstellar visitor does not involve aliens
- TED Talk: The galactic recipe for a living planet
- LBH: A look back at Hubble’s history in honor of its 30th anniversary
- Scientists have new evidence that Earth’s inner core may be rotating
- Claim Tester: New fossil insect species points to a Canada-Australia land route 50 million years ago
- WDYK/WDYA: The Lost Continent of Zealandia Disappeared Millions of Years Ago — but These New Maps Show It in Stunning Detail
- Surviving core of ill-fated Jupiter-like planet spotted near distant star
- The moon is 85 million years younger than previously thought
- Scientists confirm Venus is still volcanically active
- Possible hint of life discovered on Venus
- Water, Water, Every Where — And Now Scientists Know Where It Came From
- Disciplines (Geophysicist): Gold miners discover 100 million-year-old meteorite crater Down Under
- Claim Tester: Three more bodies of water may have been discovered on Mars, study suggests
- This could be the first extragalactic planet we’ve ever found
- 'Fireball' meteorite that crashed in Michigan holds extraterrestrial organic compounds
- Exoplanets: Looking for Another Earth? Here Are 300 Million, Maybe
- Exploring the Solar System
- This company’s weird mission: turning moon dust into oxygen
- Here's What'll Happen When Plate Tectonics Grinds to a Halt
- Ancient fragment of the Pacific Ocean found buried 400 miles below China
- Mysterious black spot in polar explorer's diary offers gruesome clue to his fate
- Watch China spacecraft land on the moon in this amazing video
- Our solar system will disintegrate sooner than we thought
- What is Jupiter made of and does it have a solid core?
- Earth spent 500 million years creating and eating dead continents
- Jupiter and Saturn will come within 0.1 degrees of each other, forming the first visible "double planet" in 800 years
- Massive supercontinent will form hundreds of millions of years from now
- What's behind the mysterious, earth-shaking boom of the 'Seneca Guns'?
Unit #5: Life
- Where Did Life Come From
- Mammoths Fell Prey to the Warming Earth
- Little Known Mass Extinction
- What Do We Do When Antibiotics Do Not Work Any More
- Origins of Life May Have Found Missing Link
- How Quantum Biology Might Explain Some of Lives Biggest Questions
- Giant Frozen Virus Still Infectious After 30,000 Years
- New Earth Shaking Twist on Death of Dinosaurs
- Tsunami Swallows Cape Verde Islands 73,000 Years Ago: Could It Happen Again
- Woolly Mammoth under Michigan Farm
- Baby Dinosaur Fossil Found
- Were Dinosaurs Warm Blooded
- 10,000 Year Old Lion Cub Found Frozen
- Scientists Create Lens Based on Insect Eyes
- 12 Foot Mammoth Tusk Found-Body Wanted
- Dark Matter Killed the Dinosaurs?
- 9 Mythical Looking Creatures that Actually Exist
- Scientists Still Can't Agree On What Killed the Dinosaurs
- Hybrid Animals that will be created because of global warming
- Signs of Mass Extinction Behind a New Jersey Store
- Hunting for Dinosaurs Showed Me Our Place in the Universe
- Dinosaurs Were Already In Trouble Before the Asteroid Struck
- Tiny tots to titanic beasts: scientists map amazing lives of titanosaurs
- Scientists Fined Fossil of Hammerhead Reptile
- Studying Rocks from the Day Dinosaurs Disappeared Forever
- Surviving an Extinction Event Like the Crater of Doom
- After Mass Extinction, Oddball Reptile Appears
- Fish May Have Used Tails and Fins to Walk on Land
- Supernova May Have Abetted a Mass Extinction on Earth
- Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish
- Largest Dinosaur Print Found in Bolivia
- Scientists Take Step to Recreating Primordial RNA of 4 Billion Years Ago
- TED Talk: What a Planet Needs to Sustain Life
- TED Talk: How Trees Talk to Each Other
- Mammoth Find that Stumps Experts
- First of Its Kind: A Fossilized Dinosaur Brain
- Dinosaur Brain Tissue Found
- Scientists Find First Fossilized Dinosaur Brain
- It's Not a Pebble but a Fossilized Dinosaur Brain
- How the Brown Rat Conquered New York City
- Wildlife Populations Have Plunged 60 Percent Since 1970
- Genes Show How Seahorse Got Its Snout & Became a Good Father
- Video: New Human Organ Found
- Seahorses Have Fastest Evolving Genome
- The Human Body's 79th Organ
- A Break in the Search for Origin of Complex Life
- Scientist Finally Place Fossil on Tree of Life
- Chimps Use Dipping Stick to Harvest Water From Tree Holes
- Paleontologists Find 52 Million Year Old Fossilized Berry
- Dinosaur Eggs May Have Needed Half a Year to Incubate
- How Palm Trees Survive in Vancouver Despite Freezing Weather
- Human's Earliest Known Ancestor May Have Been Tiny and Terrifying
- TED Talk: The Dawn of De-extinction
- Aquarium's Leopard Shark Reproduces Asexually
- Scientists Now Know Why Whales Jump Out of the Water
- Carnivorous plants all over the world used convergent evolution to start eating flesh
- Fossilized protein found in 195-million-year-old dinosaur bone
- Early life kept oxygen in check and stalled evolution for billions of years, model suggests
- Forget eggs: This terrifying 250-million-year-old dinosaur gave birth to live babies
- Scientists claim they’re close to resurrecting the woolly mammoth
- 3.7-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Could Be Evidence Of Earliest Life On Earth
- Earliest Evidence of Life on Earth Found?
- Fish Changed in a Surprising Way Before Invading Land
- Seaweed might have helped determine who we are today
- The best-fossilized octopus we’ve ever found gets recreated in 3D to understand their evolution
- Half of the world’s species could become extinct by 2100, biologists say at Vatican conference
- If there’s any life in the Trappist-1 system it’s likely been planet-hopping, scientists say
- World’s oldest plant-like fossils indicate we might have to rethink emergence of multicellular life
- A 130-Year-Old Fact About Dinosaurs Might Be Wrong
- Beautifully preserved fossil reveals a new 430-million-year old crustacean species, gets named in honor of Sir Attenborough’s 90th birthday
- This YouTube time-lapse of cellular division in action will have you hitting replay again and again
- Insect courtship behavior trapped in 100-million-year-old amber
- Researchers find the oldest ever crocodile eggs
- How One Of The World's Toughest Creatures Can Bring Itself Back To Life
- “Missing link” of sharks discovered
- The most diverse dinosaur tracks ever were documented in Western Australia. World’s biggest dino footprint found here
- Newly discovered tyrannosaur species had a delicate face
- Oldest mammal blood found in 30-million-year-old tick fossilized in amber
- More evidence adds up to support the intelligence of elephants
- Pristine, demon-faced dinosaur is named after Zuul from ‘Ghostbusters’
- What is the big deal about CRISPR?
- ‘Rare as winning the lottery’: New dinosaur fossil so well-preserved it looks like a statue
- Ancient 36-million-year-old fossil helps track down how baleen whales lost their teeth
- Warm-bloodedness shown to be millions of years older than we thought — maybe as old as the dinosaurs
- Extinct giant tortoise is being revived after an unexpected find
- Scientists discover new iguana species in Fiji island
- T-Rex’s image as a giant, scaly, monster supported by new study
- Paleontologists find the oldest mushroom fossil
- Baby bird trapped in stunning pristine condition inside 100-million-year-old amber
- A beginner’s guide to naming species in Latin
- Why do bird eggs come in so many different shapes ? Look to the wings, biologists say
- Previously unknown two-million-year-old marine extinction discovered by geologists
- Megaoldon Went Extinct in Megafauna Mass Extinction
- Dinosaur videos — visualizing the terrifying lizards
- Dinosaur extinction paved the way for an explosion of frog life
- Jurassic-era crocodiles had T. rex teeth
- Lioness mother spotted breastfeeding baby leopard — an absolute first
- The earliest large organisms on Earth were shapeshifters
- A single ‘letter’ difference in their DNA made some whales huge, others sleek and predatory
- Boy trips, falls and discovers million-year-old fossil
- This shark ate a bit of steel, pushed it out through its skin and then healed back up
- Three new species of toad discovered in Nevada
- Scientists take a deep look inside mysterious 580-million-year-old creatures
- Scientists find deep-sea miniature shark that glows in the dark
- Big, armoured dinosaur might have used camouflage to avoid predators
- New Anthrax variant is causing havoc in Africa threatening chimp populations
- Newly identified 500-million-year old ancient worm had 50 spines bulging from its head
- Podcast: Digging Up A New Dinosaur
- TED Talk: Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face
- How algae prepared the ground 650 million years ago for the miracle of complex life
- Heavily armored dino might’ve used its plates as status symbols, to attract mates, intimidate rivals
- Scientists catch human evolution in the making
- Macaques may have just entered the Stone Age
- Elephants increasingly become more nocturnal to evade poachers
- Genetic master switch for butterfly wing coloring found with CRISPR
- Why Dinosaurs Matter
- Vegetarian Dinosaurs, Not So Fast
- Are viruses alive?
- California now has an official dinosaur: the Augustynolophus
- New evidence indicates that life on Earth emerged almost 4 billion years ago
- Meteorites may have seeded life in Darwin’s ‘warm little ponds’
- Scientists discover 15 new gecko species in Myanmar
- The first trees, hundreds of millions of years old, were also the most complex
- Feathered dinosaur sported bandit mask and striped raccoon-like tail 130 million years ago
- Dinosaurs might have still been alive today had apocalyptic asteroid fallen somewhere else 66 million years ago
- Ancient otter packed a surprisingly strong bite
- Author A.J. Jacobs Talks Genealogy And The World's Family Tree
- Long-necked sauropod made world’s longest dinosaur trackway
- More evidence that the dinosaurs were super unlucky with regards to that whole asteroid thing
- Hundreds Of Eggs From Ancient Flying Reptile Are Found In China
- Tardigrades are the toughest animals on Earth. What would it take to kill them all?
- World’s oldest eye found in a fossil in Estonia is very similar to today’s eyes
- Scientists name 245-million-year-old Horseshoe crab after Darth Vader
- Newly discovered amphibious dinosaur had swan-like body but killer raptor claws
- The Surprising Evolution of Dinosaur Drawings
- Deepest fish in the sea is the undisputed king of the Mariana Trench
- CLAIM TESTER: “Yeti” samples have been DNA tested and they actually come from Asian bears
- Cobalt-blue tarantula and 30 other species discovered in Guyana rainforest
- TED Talk Playlist: How Does DNA Work?
- Scientists turn DNA into virtually any 3D shape imaginable
- Tasmanian tiger genome reveals new clues about its extinction but also surprising kinship to kangaroo
- Humans and sharks last shared a common ancestor 440 million years ago
- The genome of the first African in Iceland has been reconstructed, without any physical remains
- Hooked on fast food: Crows create intricate tools to reach food faster
- The Pentagon is one huge pile of ancient bugs, but don’t start evacuating just yet
- Spectacular dinosaur stomping grounds discovered just outside D.C.
- Big dinosaur is a big piece of evidence for Africa’s geological past
- Amazing fossil shows that Earth’s earliest birds evolved just like Darwin’s finches
- Cave crocodiles that swim in bat poop are evolving into a new species
- Stomach burn: toads vomit bombardier beetles which trigger explosions in the gut
- TED Talk: This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life
- Plants colonized the land 500 million years ago — much earlier than we thought
- Mesozoic baby bird fossil sheds new light on evolution
- New tardigrade species with unusual eggs found in Japanese parking lot
- Dinosaur-bird link seems to have been capable of active flight, solving long-time mystery
- Scientists discover why cockroaches are such good survivors
- Ecosystems: what they are and why they are important
- The world needs more carnivores, according to an analysis of their habitats
- Researchers investigate intriguing ‘baby’ tyrannosaur fossil
- How humans are influencing the way brown bears raise their young
- Why Whales Got So Big
- Scientists identify new Flu H1N2 from a mix of two other influenza viruses
- New Species Discovered in the Amazon
- Puffins have beaks that glow in UV light to bedazzle mates
- Ichthyosaur jaw-bone might have belonged to largest animal ever
- Malaria makes its hosts smell better to draw more mosquitoes, research finds
- Whale skulls act like resonance chambers to help them hear underwater
- Scientists confirm weird ‘knot-shaped’ DNA structure in human cells for the first time
- 100-million-year-old fossilized larvae got a tasty meal by pretending to be a liverwort
- How tooth wear sheds light on the predatory lives of dinosaurs
- Unique fossils show how early bird beaks developed
- Salty, subglacial lakes in Canada could be key for studying aliens
- New species of sea slug steals algae chlorophyll to live a solar-powered lifestyle
- Lizards with lime-green blood might lead to cure for malaria and other diseases
- Australian wrens recognize friends from other species and work together with them
- Early mammal fossil shows how the Pangaea supercontinent split up
- Ancient bony fish that was larger than a whale shark and a fast swimmer
- Meet the oldest tree in Europe
- A 99-million-year-old amber fossil preserved the earliest frog from tropical forests
- TED Talk: 4 Billion Years of Evolution in 6 Minutes
- New form of photosynthesis has been discovered
- South African fossils cast doubt over tropical origin of our four-legged aquatic ancestors
- What are the steps of DNA replication
- Scientists find 22,000 year-old giant panda belonging to a distinct long-lost lineage
- Six new spider species discovered, named after children’s tales goblins
- Scientists find ‘nude’ creature that lived half a billion years ago
- Small arms, tongue-tied: T-Rex couldn’t stick its tongue out
- Hurricane-braving lizards get to grips with natural selection
- TED ED: Why Do Animals Have Different Life Spans?
- Roundworms brought back to life after spending 42,000 years iced in permafrost
- ‘Amazing dragon’ fossils in China rewrite the evolution of world’s most massive dinosaurs
- Newly-discovered American ankylosaur turns out to be an Asian immigrant
- Grieving orca carries dead calf for seven days in heartbreaking ritual
- World’s 2nd largest penguin colony collapses, losing 88% of members in just 35 years
- Enigmatic creatures that lived 630 million years ago were animals — but not like anything we’ve seen before
- Flowers have likely been producing heavenly scents for millions of years
- Scientists unearth oldest pterosaur ever — perhaps the first flying vertebrate on Earth
- Stunningly preserved 228-million-year-old fossils shed light on mysterious turtle origins
- Claim Tester: The oldest life on Earth may have appeared 4.5 billion years ago, according to detailed ‘family tree’
- Scientists analyzed the composition of dinosaur DNA — and it’s really similar to birds’
- Ozone-depleting chemicals may have caused the largest mass extinction in history
- This Plan to Bring Back an Extinct Ice-Age Horse Species Is an Extreme Long Shot, Scientists Say
- Watch the Awesome Way in Which Plants Defend Themselves Against Threats
- Fossil of Oldest Flowering Tree in North America Discovered. And It Was Huge.
- 48-Million-Year-Old Fossil Owl Is Almost Perfectly Preserved
- Jurassic-era mammalian relative found with 38 of its babies’ skulls
- The biggest birds in history were probably nocturnal — and blind
- Ghostly Dumbo Octopus Makes Rare Appearance in Dazzling Deep-Sea Video
- Earth's mysterious 'deep biosphere' may harbor millions of undiscovered species
- New snake species discovered in another snake’s belly
- Rare Flying Reptile with Mouthful of Fangs Trolled Jurassic Skies
- New species of incredible 'living tank' dinosaur unveiled
- Earth's Magnetic Field Nearly Disappeared 565 Million Years Ago
- Rare bone cancer found in 240-million-year-old turtle
- WDYK WDYA: Nanotyrannus and the Skeptical Criteria for Species
- Hidden world of microscopic life revealed in extraordinary pictures
- Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years in Siberian Permafrost Wriggle to Life
- This Spiky-Spined Beast Is the Most Punk-Rock Dino Ever Discovered
- Lions cling to giraffe's back in risky attack
- 480-Million-Year-Old Mystery Creature Finally Identified from Its Preserved Guts
- Mighty T. Rex Began As Cute, Deer-Size Dino
- The Megalodon Spent Tens of Millions of Years Honing Its Lethal, Knife-Like Teeth
- Scientists discover and name 103 beetles — all new to science
- Fossil Friday: Newly-found fossil teeth solve ancient monkey mystery
- LBH: Dragons: A Brief History of the Mythical, Fire-Breathing Beasts
- Fossil Friday: Fossil Friday: new study says Texas used to be a ‘veritable Serengeti’ 11 to 12 million years ago
- TED Talks Playlist: Theories of Evolution
- ‘Ninja' rat kicks snake in midair in amazing slo-mo video
- Most detailed survey yet finds 200,000 species of viruses living in the oceans
- Great White Shark Chomps Down on Sea Turtle, Chokes to Death
- Fossil Friday: earliest known millipede found in piece of Burmese amber
- Feathered dinosaurs may have accidentally developed flying — while running
- Scientists discover new giant dinosaur with heart-shaped tail bones
- This Bird Went Extinct, Then Evolution Recreated It
- Deep-sea fish developed super vision to cope with abyssal darkness
- Oldest tree in eastern North America found in a swamp: it’s 2,624 years old
- Evolution: What is it? How does it work?
- The first fungi may be a billion years old
- Scientists find new dinosaur species in glittering opal-encrusted fossils
- Quartz Obsession: Rats
- The naked mole-rat is impervious to pain and cancer, and lives ten times longer than it should — what can we learn from it?
- LBH: Why Do Skulls Have So Many Bones? (It's Loads More Than You Think)
- Ancient 'Loch Ness Monster' from Antarctica Breaks a Record for Body Size
- Russian scientists find the first ever giant bird fossils in Europe
- Claim Tester: The birth of forests helped drive two massive, ancient extinctions
- Evolution doesn't work the way you think it does
- Behold Mortichnia, the Death Trail of an Ancient Worm
- Meet 'Cold Dragon of the North Winds,' the Giant Pterosaur That Once Soared Across Canadian Skies
- Rare, Two-Headed Rattlesnake Named 'Double Dave' Rescued from Certain Doom in New Jersey
- What If There Were No Sharks?
- Research suggests T. rex had a cooling system in its head
- 'Smoking Gun' Evidence Dates Some of Earth's Earliest Life to 3.5 Billion Years Ago
- TED Talk: Ancient Rock Suggest Another Theory on the Origins of Life on Earth
- Amazing mold pigs trapped in 30-million-year-old amber
- The Last Woolly Mammoths Died Off 4000 Years Ago
- Dinosaur predator with shark-like teeth found in Thailand
- Everything We Know About Dinosaur Evolution is Changing
- How Life on Our Planet Made It Through Snowball Earth
- Early meat-eating dinosaur revealed via spectacular fossil
- Inven-a-Species: Chinese scientists engineer monkey-pig chimeras
- Malaria-bearing mosquitoes are evolving insecticide-resistant feet
- Early 'Soda Lakes' May Have Provided Missing Ingredient Key to the Origin of Life
- 6-Foot-Tall T. Rex Skeletons Not a New Pygmy Species, Just Teenagers
- The World's Oldest 'Fossil Forest' Was Just Discovered in New York State
- TED Talk: The secret weapon that let dinosaurs take over the planet
- Out of Deep-Sea Mud, a Strange Blob May Hold Secrets to the Origins of Complex Life
- Fossil Friday: oldest-known scorpion was a pioneer of life on dry land
- Adorable Tardigrades Have a Surprising, Fatal Weakness
- Tropical sharks are using their fins to walk
- ‘Dancing dragon’ bridges gap between feathered dinosaurs and birds
- Sharks in Kentucky? What explorers found in Mammoth Cave is blowing researchers' minds
- On the trail of dinosaurs in the Free State
- How did this rare pink manta get its color?
- Most dinosaurs were warm-blooded, surprising new study claims
- British coins — now featuring dinosaurs
- Primitive bee trapped in 100-million-year-old amber is one of the earliest pollinators
- This may be the biggest turtle that ever lived
- Dinosaur names: Complete your vocabulary with these awesome dinosaurs
- Trapped in amber, this could be the smallest dinosaur ever found
- Of mammoth proportions: the difference between mammoths and mastodons
- Theory by Darwin is proven 150 years after his death
- THIS ANCIENT FISH WITH ARMS MIGHT BE THE REASON YOU HAVE HANDS
- TED Talk: How you can help save the monarch butterfly -- and the planet
- Paleontologists uncover remains of a 33-FOOT long megaraptor
- Best-preserved dinosaur stomach ever found reveals 'sleeping dragon's' last meal
- Fossil Friday: the UK’s first-ever pterodactyl fossil
- 'Jurassic Park' got almost everything wrong about this iconic dinosaur
- Claim Tester: Did T-Rex Have Lips
- Researchers confirm the first case of bone cancer in dinosaurs
- New 'eternal sleeper' dinosaur species was entombed while still alive
- When Prehistoric Lacewings Disguised Themselves as Middle-Jurassic Lichens
- 313-million-year-old track marks found in Grand Canyon
- 1st of their kind baby tyrannosaur fossils unearthed
- Driver Identified of the Largest Mass Extinction in the History of the Earth
- 24 million-year-old nursery for baby megasharks discovered in South Carolina
- Sue the T. rex had a terribly painful infection when she died
- Ireland’s first-ever dinosaur fossils confirmed
- Why did the dinosaurs go extinct?
- This African rat gnaws on a poisonous tree to make itself toxic to predators
- Wide-eyed prehistoric shark hid its sharpest teeth in nightmare jaws
- Cretaceous cold case of 'dueling' T. rex and Triceratops may finally be solved
- Claim Tester: Triassic period ended with 'lost' mass extinction and a million-year rain storm, study claims
- Darwin’s century-old prediction about flightless insect seems to be on point
- Hungry teenage tyrants help explain puzzling fact about dinosaur diversity
- Orcas are eating great white sharks’ livers off South Africa’s coast
Unit #6: Early Humans
- What Explains the Rise of Humans
- New Species of Human Discovered in South Africa
- Scientist Who Found New Species Accused of Playing Fast and Loose with the Truth
- Koko the Gorilla Gets Kittens
- Wearable Sensors Could Translate Sign Language to English
- Tooth Yields the DNA of Our Ancient Cousins
- Humans and Neanderthal May Have Bred in the Middle East
- Nearby Supernova Explosions May Have Impacted Human Evolution
- Missing Y Chromosome Kept Us Apart from Neanderthals
- New Timeline in the Creation of the Chauvet Cave Paintings
- Evidence mounts for interbreeding bonanza in ancient human species
- Early Human Diet Recreated, Shows Life Was No Picnic
- TED Talk: This is Your Brain on Communication
- 9,000-year-old Kennewick Man set to receive Native American burial after decades in limbo
- Humans may have drove cave lions extinct and used their pelts as rugs
- Homo sapiens Picked Up a Customized Immune System By Interbreeding With Neanderthals
- Homo habilis was Right Handed
- Oldest Footprints Paint Picture of Our Earliest Ancestors
- Lucy the Butcher?
- Classifying Humans into Races, the Biggest Mistake in the History of Science
- Dust to Dust: Scientists Find Ancient Human DNA in Cave Floor Dirt
- Why Are Most People Right-Handed
- Infant Brains Show How the Mind is Built
- First Humans May Have Arrived in North American 10,000 Years Earlier
- 10 Things that Make Humans Special
- Pretty Rock Found in Croatia Points to Artistic Side of Neanderthals
- Birth of Human Speech May Go Back Further Than 100,000 Years
- Using tools to process raw meat may have altered the course of human evolution
- Study: Language – not religion or birthplace – defines national identity
- The problem of language extinction is particularly bad in Peru
- Startled bees let out an adorable ‘whoop’ when a hive-mate bumps into them
- Dental plaque shows what Neanderthals took as drugs
- Cave mystery changing how scientists think of Neanderthals
- Mysterious 400,000-year-old skull found in Portugal might have belonged to a Neanderthal ancestor
- What does gestural communication of great apes tell us about human language?
- Can we know what animals are thinking?
- Are you an ape? Depends on How You Interpret the Word "Ape".
- The Plot to Kill Homo habilis
- This Professor Teaches Students How To Live The Prehistoric Life
- Ancient artifacts and one of the earliest cave paintings in the world found in Indonesia
- Prehistoric cannibalism not just driven by hunger, study reveals
- Meet the Stone Age woman with a modern-looking face
- ‘Hobbits’ didn’t evolve from a direct modern human ancestor. They likely originate from Africa instead
- CLAIM TESTER: Ancient Carvings Show Comet Hit Earth 13.000 Years Ago?
- Humans in America 130,000 Years Ago?
- If you want a glimpse of an ancient human ancestor, the bonobo might be the closest you’ll get
- Advanced 77,000-year-old Stone Age weapons found in South Africa
- Scientists report new trove of information on Homo naledi, the newly discovered humanoid species
- TED Talk: The Biology of Our Best and Worst Selves
- CLAIM TESTER: The first hominids might have evolved in Europe, fossil jaw suggests
- Loss of a mate causes birds to make new social connections and strengthen the ones that they already have
- TED Talk (6 Episodes): Ancient Clues
- Science Friday Podcast: Fossil Finds Could Mean a Wider Cradle of Humanity
- 300,000 year-old “early Homo sapiens” sparks debate over evolution
- Dogs have been working alongside humans for much longer than we thought
- Carved human skull fragments found in world’s oldest temple hint at a morbid cult
- Neanderthals might have practiced prehistoric dentistry 130,000 years ago
- Early Neanderthal DNA suggests a modern human-related dispersal from Africa as early as 220,000 years ago
- Early Europeans may have survived the Ice Age because of arthritis
- Gibraltar's "Neanderthal City" offers glimpse into life of humans' closest relatives
- No bones needed — researchers use DNA in soil to tell if humans were around
- This 90-Second Time-Lapse of The Evolution of The Human Face Is Mesmerising
- A lost race of hominids left their legacy in the saliva of Sub-Saharan populations
- Humans First Arrived in Australia 65,000 Years Ago, Study Suggests
- Modern humans might’ve killed off the Neanderthals by eating all the mammoth
- Tiny, fossilized ape skull brings us closer to the common human-ape ancestor, fuels debate over humanity’s place of birth
- Around 4,500 years ago, Vietnamese stone-age traders traveled hundreds of kilometers to sell their wares
- Neanderthals were distilling tar 200,000 years ago well before humans
- Homo naledi: Renewed excavations in the Rising Star cave
- How much evidence have scientists found for human evolution?
- What a hunter-gatherer diet does to the body in just three days
- Genetics Spills Secrets From Neanderthals’ Lost History
- All Blue-Eyed People Share One Common Ancestor
- Neanderthal and modern humans shared long childhoods
- Modern humans emerged up to 350,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought
- Homo naledi: What we’ve learned from the Rising Star cave system this month
- Some 2% of our DNA is Neanderthal. Here’s what it does
- Virtual reconstruction shows what the first modern humans to reach Europe looked like
- TED-ED: Cave Paintings in 360 degree Animation
- Wolves are better team players than dogs, study reveals, casting doubt on our view of domestication
- Prehistoric Fossils Dating Back 9.7m Years Could Rewrite History Of Where Humans Came From
- ROCK ART DISCOVERED IN DEEP DARK CAVES REVEAL EARLY HUMAN CIVILIZATION ON PUERTO RICO’S UNINHABITED MONA ISLAND
- Early human ancestors may not have passed down knowledge but simply crafted tools on instinct
- Humans didn't outsmart the Neanderthals. We just outlasted them.
- How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction
- Anthropologist group suggests first humans to the Americas arrived via the kelp highway
- The story of human dispersal out of Africa started 60,000 years earlier than previously thought
- Ice Age era caves found below the Canadian city of Montréal
- 8,000 years old rock art in Saudi Arabia documents the earliest known use of dog leashes
- Will the “most complete skeleton ever” transform human origins?
- ANCIENT CAVE IN CHINA FILLED WITH 45,000-YEAR-OLD STONE TOOLS AND ANIMAL BONES, NEW EXCAVATION REVEALS
- In the DNA of an ancient infant, scientists find traces of the very first Americans
- 27 fascinating maps that show how Americans speak English differently across the US
- Milleniums-old rock art in India could be humanity’s first record of a supernova
- Pet translator might enable humans to communicate with animals
- Humans got a brain upgrade less than 200,000 years ago, and it made us what we are today
- Oldest human fossil outside Africa suggests our species left the continent 100,000 years earlier than thought
- 1,000-Year-Old Hunting Weapon Found in Melting Yukon Ice
- Reconstructing an ancient lethal weapon
- ‘Cheddar Man’ DNA suggests early Britons had dark skin, blue eyes
- One of the oldest skeletons ever seen in the Americas was found in a flooded cave — and it could reshape our understanding of human history
- Monkey ‘vocabulary’ could clue us in on evolution of human speech
- Claim Tester: New study links ancient cave drawings and the origin of language
- Neanderthals were artists just like humans, and even understood symbolism
- Ancient humans thrived during a supervolcano eruption
- Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Human (and Neanderthal) History
- Some 70,000 years ago, a rogue star duo whooshed by our solar system — and early humans probably saw it
- Most grey wolves today are actually wolf-dog hybrids, due to cross-breeding
- Mesolithic people were able to withstand dramatic climate shocks, new study shows
- Scientists double the number of Neanderthal genomes, gleaning new tribal insights
- Oldest Human DNA from Africa Reveals Clues About a Mysterious Ancient Culture
- Archaeologists find 13,000 year-old human footprints on Canadian coast
- Why Neanderthals Had Faces That Were So Different From Ours
- Claim Tester: Misidentified Ancient Burial Ritual Sites Turn Out to Be Much More Gruesome
- Fossil finger found in Arabia is earliest evidence of modern humans outside Africa and Levant
- How expressive eyebrows helped shape human evolution
- More than half your body is not human
- TED Talk: How Language Shapes the Way We Think
- Human-like walking evolved before the genus Homo, more than 3.6 million years ago
- Change in ocean circulation bumped up CO2 levels in the atmosphere and helped end the last Ice Age
- Breastfeeding changed tooth shape in pre-Native American peoples
- Fossilized footprints show human hunters stalked giant sloths more than 11,000 years ago
- Wood-carved idol retrieved from Russian bog is, incredibly, older than the Pyramids
- Butchered rhino bones and stone artifacts suggest hominids were in Philippines 709,000 years ago
- Claim Tester: Further Evidence of Neanderthal Symbolism?
- Australian magpies can understand what other birds are ‘saying’ with surprising clarity
- Why do humans have such big brains?
- Scientists to grow 'mini-brains' using Neanderthal DNA
- The Oldest Human Fossils: 9 Sites That Provide a Look Into the Past
- One genetic change 3 million years ago made our brains big — and won us the world
- Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, has died
- New Caledonian crows can make tools from memory
- 3.3 million-year-old fossil shows that ancient toddlers climbed trees
- Interview with Jane Goodall on her 80th Birthday
- 5,300 Years Ago, Ötzi the Iceman Died. Now We Know His Last Meal.
- We haven’t been giving Neanderthals enough credit
- The Timeline of Human Evolution
- Scientists Stunned By a Neanderthal Hybrid Discovered in a Siberian Cave
- Claim Tester: Study claims laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus
- Scientists find a new type of neuron that may be unique to humans
- Gruesome mammoth 'kill site' discovered
- For Thousands of Years, Humans Coexisted with the Largest Birds That Ever Lived
- Oldest Known Drawing by Human Hands Discovered in South African Cave
- Humans were brewing beer before they started growing cereals
- Bonobo food-sharing points to evolutionary origin of human generosity
- One broken gene made us very good runners
- The Game-Changing Technique Behind an Amazing New Archaeological Discovery
- Discovery of Ancient Spearpoints in Texas Has Some Archaeologists Questioning the History of Early Americas
- Who Were the 1st Americans? 11,000-Year-Old DNA Reveals Clues
- Orangutans can ‘talk’ about the past and the future, study suggests
- Why Archaeology is So Much More Than Digging
- Some of our ancestors walked on two legs millions of years before Homo sapiens evolved
- 25,000 Years Later, Javelin Is Still Embedded in Mammoth's Rib
- Neanderthals and Denisovans Lived (and Mated) in This Siberian Cave
- Neanderthal footprints discovered in Gibraltar
- Homo luzonensis
- This Newfound Extinct Human Lineage Also Mated with Modern Humans
- The First Cave Art from the Balkans May Date Back 30,000 Years
- Russian researchers extract liquid blood from frozen 42,000-year-old foal — plan to clone it
- Fossilized poop shows ancient hunter-gatherer ate a rattlesnake whole — fangs included
- Oldest Human Footprint in Americas May Be This 15,600-Year-Old Mark in Chile
- Denisovan jawbone found on the Tibetan plateau sheds light on mysterious ancient humans
- Ancient Carvings Show Evidence of a Comet Swarm Hitting Earth Around 13,000 Years Ago
- First Denisovan fossil found outside of Siberia — our ancient “cousins” spread far and wide
- Researchers reconstruct the ‘lost plains’ of now-submerged Doggerland
- Abrupt climate change killed off ancient South American populations
- Humans and Neanderthals Evolved from a Mystery Common Ancestor, Huge Analysis Suggests
- African green monkeys howling at drones teach us about the evolution of language
- Wild chimpanzees learned how to crack open tortoises — and they’re sharing the knowledge among themselves
- Evolution of Walking Upright Linked to Ancient Supernova in Weird New Theory
- 12,000 Year Old Stone Carving Found at Hunting Site in France
- Bees can not only count, and understand the concept of zero — they also grasp the concept of numerical symbols
- Prehistoric stone tools were invented multiple times before becoming a staple
- These First Americans Vanished Without a Trace — But Hints of Them Linger
- Unknown Group of Ancient Humans Once Lived in Siberia, New Evidence Reveals
- Update: The Out of Eden Walk
- Disciplines: What is Archaeology
- WDYK/WDYA: Severed Head of a Giant 40,000-Year-Old Wolf Discovered in Russia
- Humans started cooking and eating starch 120,000 years ago
- Rising Seas Swallowed Countless Archaeological Sites. Scientists Want Them Back
- Capuchin monkeys are 3,000 years into their own Stone Age
- How Many People Did It Take to First Occupy Australia?
- How archaeologists determine the date of ancient sites and artifacts
- Ancient DNA reveals new twists in Neanderthal migration
- Neanderthals used resin as glue to craft complex stone tools
- 12,000 Years Ago, a Boy Had His Skull Squashed into a Cone Shape. It's the Oldest Evidence of Such Head-Shaping
- Why Do Chimpanzees Throw Poop?
- Oldest carving in East Asia found. But its maker is a mystery.
- Where you grew up, what you ate—your bones record your life
- Case closed: scientists solve 33,000-year-old murder case
- Ironic, Informal And Expressive, 'New Rules Of Language' Evolve Online
- The Face of Our Earliest Human Ancestor
- The first Americans may have arrived by boat, before the land bridge existed
- History as Mystery: An Iranian Cave, a Neanderthal Tooth, And an Ice Age Murder Mystery
- Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of an Ancient High-Altitude Human Dwelling
- Old World primates can only use two ‘words’ at a time, new research suggests
- Found: A Windfall of Neanderthal Footprints in France
- Extinct Denisovan Woman Gets Her First Portrait Thanks to DNA from Her Pinky Bone
- SCALE: Nanoscale look at tooth enamel reveals its ‘mis-orientation’ that makes it so strong
- TED Talk: Why Language is Humanity's Greatest Invention
- Eurasia’s Oldest Tiny Tools Were Essential for Living in the Rain Forest
- Map of Early Human Migration
- First human migration out of Africa more geographically widespread than previously thought
- Video Khan Academy: Peopling the Early
- Claim Tester: Great apes can tap into other points of view to anticipate actions (How Closely Are We Related to the Great Apes)
- Animal bones are the original canned food, research finds
- Claim Tester: Why Humans' Extinct 'Hobbit' Relatives Were So Small
- TED-ED: Nail vs. Claws
- Eagle Talon Jewelry Suggests Neanderthals Were Capable of Human-Like Thought
- Macaque tool-use patterns help us understand how early humans went about it
- Video: Experimental Archaeology
- One small-brained Kenyan bird creates complex societies, and it can teach us about our own
- Ancient Ape with 'Human Legs' and 'Orangutan Arms' Moved Like No Other Creature on Earth
- How Many Calories Can the Brain Burn by Thinking?
- These Ice Age Humans Somehow Survived North of the Arctic Circle
- When Did Humans First Reach North America? The Question Keeps Getting More Complex.
- Mummified Pup Died in Siberia 18,000 Years Ago ... And Might Be a Wolf (or Something Else)
- We have the first genetic evidence of human self-domestication
- Neanderthal extinction could have been driven by inbreeding, demographic issues — not modern humans
- Archaeologists uncover 12,500-year-old site in Avon, showing evidence of the earliest known population in Connecticut
- Artwork in Indonesia might be the new ‘oldest’ hunting scene by modern humans
- Mysterious Denisovans emerged from the shadows in 2019
- Ancient human species made ‘last stand’ 100,000 years ago on Indonesian island
- The story of how and when Homo sapiens made it to the Americas changes again
- Claim Tester: In Oregon, Archaeologists Found Evidence of Children Learning to Hunt
- Our ancestors may have always walked on two legs, 10-million-year-old ape suggests
- 800,000 Years Ago, a Meteor Slammed Into Earth. Scientists Just Found the Crater.
- Neanderthals dived underwater for shells to use as tools
- Neanderthals Had Advanced Hunting Technology
- A new “ghost lineage” of humans found in Africa
- Are the 11,300-Year-Old LSU Mounds the US Göbekli Tepe?
- We are all a bit Neanderthal, new DNA research shows
- 9,990-YEAR-OLD SKULL MAY REWRITE ANCIENT AMERICAN HISTORY
- ‘Flower burial’ cave offers new insight into Neanderthal death rites
- Earliest interbreeding event between ancient human populations discovered
- Bones of Neolithic immigrants killed in massacre found in Spanish cave
- Hunter-gatherer “social media” accelerated our evolution
- A Mysterious 25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths
- How the Hyoid Bone Changed History
- A Groundbreaking Discovery of Early Stone Age Tools Shows How the Human Race Once Survived a Prehistoric Volcanic Super-Eruption
- Itsy-Bitsy Indonesian Rocks Are Rewriting the History of Ancient Art
- European Neanderthals feasted on fresh seafood, boosting their brain
- Claim Tester: Israeli Archaeologists Solve Mystery of Prehistoric Stone Balls
- Ancient fragments of twisted fibers show Neanderthals grasped math and had a materialistic culture
- TED Talk: The Language of Being Human
- Dog Breeding in the Neolithic Age
- 11,000-year-old mine in underwater cave surprises archaeologists
- Aboriginal artifacts point to the first underwater archaeological sites in Australia
- Archaeologists date earliest known occupation of North America
- Disciplines: Non-Invasive Archaeology: Evidence of Enormous Temples Found at Northern Ireland’s Navan Fort
- Claim Testing: Like a baby’s bottom: why don’t humans have fur?
- Claim Tester: Human ancestors may have boiled their food in hot springs nearly 2 million years ago
- Perfectly preserved Ice Age ‘cave bear’ remains found in New Siberian Islands
- Video: Mexico cave shows humans lived in the Americas 30,000 years ago
- TED ED: Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down?
- Humans live much longer than chimps due to a slower epigenetic ‘clock’
- Scientists recreate the face of ancient dog
- Human ancestors used fire to make stone tools 300,000 years ago
- Archaeologists Have Discovered an Extraordinary New Style of Aboriginal Rock Art That Honors the Human-Animal Bond
- Climate change wiped out five human relatives, new study says. Are we next?
- World’s Oldest Murder Mystery Was 430,000 Years in the Making
- The Cute Critter Rewriting Our Understanding of Prehistory
- Intro to Archaeology: How to Give Stolen Artifacts Back to Historic Sites
- Ancient burial of fierce female hunter (and her weapons) discovered in Peru
- WDYK/WDYA: How a Human Cousin Adapted to a Changing Climate
- A beginner's guide to urban foraging
- The Clovis Point and the Discovery of America’s First Culture
- THUMB STUDY REVEALS WHY ONE ANCIENT HUMAN HAD THE UPPER HAND OVER ANOTHER
- Hunter-Gatherer Menu: Sprawling 8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered hidden in Amazon rainforest
- Multiple lines of mysterious ancient humans interbred with us
- ITALY CAVE DISCOVERY SHOWS NEANDERTHALS HAD A SURPRISINGLY HUMAN FEATURE
- Neanderthals could tolerate smoke and plant toxins as well as humans, study shows
- 31,000-year-old burial holds world's oldest known identical twins
- Is anyone on Earth not an immigrant?
- The Most Intriguing Archaeological Discoveries of 2020
- Ancient tools and DNA discovered in a Tibetan cave shed unprecedented light on humans' most enigmatic ancestor, the Denisovans
- Interdisciplinary Approach: Child's Bones Buried 40,000 Years Ago Solve a Longstanding Neanderthal Mystery
- 13 discoveries in the last year have fundamentally altered our understanding of human history
- Human ancestor 'Lucy' gets a new face in stunning reconstruction
Unit #7: Agriculture & Civilization
- Archaeology on Steroids: Huge Ritual Arena Found Near Stonehenge
- Easter Island Inhabitants Might Not Have Been So Lonely
- Experts New Bids to Unravel The Secrets of the Pyramids
- Secret 4,000 Year-Old Tunnel
- Plague has Impacted Humans Since the Bronze Age
- Ancient Warrior's Tomb Found in Greece
- 2,300 Year Old Theatre Found in Cyprus
- Stonehenge Begins to Yield its Secrets
- Iceman's Stomach Bugs Give Clues to How Humans Spread to Europe
- Scan of King Tut's Tomb (Hidden Room?)
- Burials at the Plain of Jars Baffles Scientists
- Mass Burial Found in Greece
- Buried Roman Villa Found in England
- Here is What 9,000 Years of Breeding Has Done to Corn, Peaches, and Other Crops
- How we have turned memories and stories into histories
- Speed of light: Technology quickly reveals once-hidden ancient cities
- TED Talk: Hunting for Peru's Lost Civilizations with Satellites
- 3,800 Year Old Tableau of Egyptian Boats Found
- Mystery of the Incan Practice of Multiple-Trepanation
- Brazil's Stonehenge
- Scientists Closer to Bringing Back Ancient Cow
- Tomb of Ancient Chinese General, Princess Unearthed
- Drones Discover Amazon Stonehenge
- TED Talk: Jared Diamond on Why Societies Collapse
- Archaeologists Unearth New Dead Sea Scrolls Cave
- Volcanic Eruption Could Be Answer to the Mystery of Maya's Collapse
- Scientists breed new blue-hued wheat hybrid that can plant itself. Farming might never be the same
- Ancient potters carefully recorded the planet’s magnetic field — without even knowing it
- Arctic 'doomsday' seed vault receives 50,000 new deposits
- Learn how to bake ancient bread from this 2,000-year-old Roman recipe
- Medieval villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds
- New Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Discovered
- Intact, 3,800 year-old tomb uncovered in Egypt
- An Excavation Of One Of The World’s Greatest Art Collections
- The Army that Conquered the World
- Rome metro workers accidentally find 2,300 year-old aqueduct
- Egypt discovers 3,000-year-old tomb of nobleman
- Ancient tomb with "blue monster" mural unearthed
- Girls have had it tough in China for nearly 3,000 years
- Medieval Christian Monks May Have Sped Up the Evolution of the Modern Chicken
- Siberia: Huge dragon and griffin megaliths created by mysterious ancient culture in Altai Mountains
- Burial chamber of Ancient Egyptian pharaoh's daughter discovered in mystery 3,800-year-old pyramid
- Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets
- Early farmers probably didn’t really know how to select crops — but they were very lucky
- Scientists Uncover Clues About Mysterious Ancient Chaco Canyon Civilization
- First DNA analysis of mummies shows ancient and modern Egyptians don’t really have much in common anymore
- Did children build the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna?
- Neutron and X-ray imaging reveal how ancient weapons were made
- Top 10 Crazy Ways Ancient Civilizations Explained A Solar Eclipse
- Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows
- How 3rd century Chinese saw the Romans
- Ancient prosthesis: a 3000-year-old Egyptian wooden toe
- Recreating The Aroma Of The Ancient City: Incense In The Ancient Mediterranean
- How seawater helped the Romans make sturdy concrete like no one else
- How Archaeologists Crammed 1500 Years of Roman History Into One Map
- The Mystery Behind Greek Temples
- Avebury stone circle contains hidden square, archaeologists find
- Claim Tester: Ancient stone monuments may have been used for mysterious moonlit ceremonies, say archaeologists
- “Incredible” burial mound located near Stonehenge, England, soon to be excavated
- Otzi’s copper axe offers hints of ‘extensive trade networks’ in Italy 5,300 years ago
- Archaeological analysis rewrites the cautionary tale of Easter Island
- World’s first smiley face found, painted 3,700 years ago on a jug in Turkey
- Neolithic cattle farmers were much more specialized than you’d think
- The Famous Easter Island Heads Have Hidden Bodies
- Biblical Canaanites live on in modern-day Lebanese people with which they share 93% DNA
- DNA study confirms near-mythological origin of the Greek people
- Dig Uncovers Artifacts From One of “Europe’s Lost People”
- Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh May Be the 1st Known 'Giant'
- Great Pyramid of Giza could be hiding 4,000-year-old secret
- Two-thousand-year-old ‘Great Wall of Siberia’ discovered by archaeologists
- British archaeologists find Roman cavalry barracks loaded with weapons and valuables
- “Nothing” changed: ancient Indian text pushes the history of zero back 500 years
- TED Talk: A Forgotten Ancient Grain That Could Help Africa Prosper Again
- A Just-Discovered Papyrus Reveals How the Great Pyramid Was Built
- TED-Ed: A Brief History of Banned Numbers
- Tracing Oral Histories to Solve a Longstanding Human-Migration Puzzle
- Obscure 3,200-year-old stone inscription finally gets deciphered — tells of Troy prince conquests and ‘Sea People’
- In Medieval times, people would pay Sin Eaters to carry their sins
- Google Earth reveals hundreds of ancient structures in Saudi Arabia
- Swiss Alpine Pass Yields 4,000-Year-Old Bow, Arrows and Lunch Box
- 6 ways climate change and disease helped topple the Roman Empire
- TED ED: Where do math symbols come from?
- Cosmic rays allow scientists to find large hidden void in Egypt’s Great Pyramid
- Europe’s first farmers mingled with the locals, slowly mixing the communities together
- 3,000-year-old castle discovered at the bottom of biggest lake in Turkey
- 4,000-Year-Old Assyrian Clay Tablets Hold Clues To 11 Lost Cities Dating Back To 2000 BC
- 4,000 year-old clay prenup mentions surrogate mothers and divorce taxes
- Ancient Egyptians likely made their inks with soot from ores, X-ray analysis reveals
- London put its most important Roman ruins back underground to make an innovative museum
- Humans have been drinking wine for at least 8,000 years
- 'Gods in Color' returns antiquities to their original, colorful grandeur
- Particle accelerator peers inside rare Egyptian-Roman mummy
- Bronze Age people used meteorites to create iron weapons
- FIRST EVIDENCE OF JULIUS CAESAR'S INVASION OF BRITAIN COULD REWRITE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
- What was the Indus Valley Civilization: the forgotten superpower of the ancient world
- UK archaeologists unearth “nationally important” collection of Iron Age artifacts
- TED ED: The Myth of Prometheus
- Ancient mummy found to have bone cancer
- TED ED: Why is Herodotus called “The Father of History”?
- Unearthed in Rome’s New Subway: Extinct Elephants and Persian Peach Pits
- Archaeologist debunking myth that most people died young prior to modern medicine
- The Timeless Allure of Ruins
- Researchers find surprisingly sophisticated prehistoric monuments off the coast of Greece
- Scientists reconstruct face of teenager who lived 9,000 years ago
- Laser Scans Reveal Maya "Megalopolis" Below Guatemalan Jungle
- Archaeologists discover the 4,400-year-old tomb of a high ranking Egyptian priestess
- TED-ED: The Rise and Fall of the Inca Empire
- Rare Roman boxing gloves found near Hadrian's Wall
- Scientists reveal how the Roman “gate to Hell” slaughtered its victims
- Claim Tester: Secret to Great Pyramid's Near-Perfect Alignment Possibly Found
- Saddle up: New evidence forces us to rethink what we know about horse history
- 2,300-Year-Old Cemetery with Mummy Priests Found in Egypt
- New case of camel flu reported in Saudi Arabia
- Humanity has contended with rising seas before — and it didn’t go well for us
- Contrary to popular belief, the Amazon basin was a vibrant, culturally-diverse area
- Claim Tester: Was King Tut A Warrior? Egyptian Pharaoh Had Battle-Damaged Armor, New Research Suggests
- TED-ED: A day in the life of an ancient Athenian
- Who was here first? A new study explains the origins of ancient Indians
- Archaeologists discover stunning Greco-Roman temple in the Egyptian desert
- TED-ED: The Byzantine Empire
- TED-ED: The Silk Road
- Parasite eggs from ancient latrines show us what our ancestors’ diets was like
- Archaeologists find ancient horse burial on the Nile Valley
- Skeleton of child trying to shelter from Vesuvius eruption uncovered in Pompeii
- These people recreated an ancient Roman beer, and here’s what they learned
- TED-ED: The Assyrian Empire
- Claim Tester: Food files: Who invented hummus?
- The Antonine Wall was adorned with brightly-colored, grisly propaganda to keep Scottish tribes at bay
- Arizona's Mysterious Clock of Ancient Times
- Embalming & mummification — everything you wanted to know
- “Made in China” label allows archaeologists to trace down ancient ship
- Unluckiest man on the planet survived Pompeii eruption only to be crushed by a falling rock
- Claim Tester: Genes of living descendants might solve mystery of the Inca Empire’s origin
- Something Weird Happened to Men 7,000 Years Ago, And We Finally Know Why
- First metal pollution event in Europe suggests Europeans were smelting metal 5,600 years ago
- Construction Workers Find Rare Intact Roman Tomb
- South America’s Inca civilization was better at skull surgery than Civil War doctors
- This ancient Chinese tomb held a royal, her extinct ape — and a warning
- Earliest evidence of beer brewing in Scandinavia hails from the Iron Age
- Ancient Roman ‘hand of god’ discovered near Hadrian’s Wall sheds light on biggest combat operation ever in UK
- Ancient farmers left their mark on the Amazon rainforest as early as 4,500 years ago
- TED ED: History vs. Augustus
- TED ED: A Day in the Life of an Egyptian Doctor
- 14,000-Year-Old Piece Of Bread Rewrites The History Of Baking And Farming
- Ancient, “priceless” royal jewelry uncovered in Kazakhstan
- Drought played a key role in the demise of the Mayan civilization
- Stonehenge people may have originated from the same place as the stones themselves
- Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like
- Interdisciplinary Connection: A palace-city in Iraq produced its own ornamental glass a thousand years ago
- Interdisciplinary Connection: What Did the Minoan Civilization Eat for Breakfast?
- Medieval Board Game Unearthed in Secret Castle Chamber
- For Ancient Farmers, the Road to Europe Was Paved with … Cheese
- Some Roman breadmakers took season-long vacations
- 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Middle Ages
- Prehistoric art hints at lost Indian civilisation
- Scientists find over 60,000 of new Maya structures (thanks to LIDAR)
- An 8-year-old Swedish girl plucked a 1,000-year-old sword from a lake like it was no big deal
- Claim Tester: Did Vesuvius Victims' Brains Really Boil and Their Skulls Explode?
- Tomb of a Pharaoh's 'Sole Friend' and 'Keeper of the Secret' Found in Egypt
- 3,500-year-old spiced latte? Archaeologists report earliest known usage of nutmeg
- Stone Engravings of Famous Warrior Pharaoh Found in Ancient Egyptian Temple
- What Do You Know, Who Do You Ask: Iron Age Teenagers
- Hidden Monuments and Cookie-Cutter 'Suburbs' Discovered in Ancient Izapa Kingdom
- This 4,500-Year-Old Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt's Great Pyramid
- Ancient palace guards ‘preserved’ in termite poop
- Hidden Passage to The 'Underworld' Beneath a Mexican Pyramid Revealed in Unprecedented Detail
- Ancient Scotland’s Picts developed writing system as early as 1,700 years ago
- Chocolate and humans go back much longer than we thought
- What Do You Know? What Do You Ask? Ancient Ceremonial Complexes Revealed in World's Driest Desert
- Archaeology Discoveries to Watch for in 2019
- TED-ED: LBH of the Chicken
- Code-Name 'Corona': Earliest Spy-Satellite Images Reveal Secrets of Ancient Middle East
- 'Ripped' Woman with Massive Forearms Is the Oldest Known Human Burial in Lower Central America
- 10 Things We Learned About the First Americans in 2018
- The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth
- LBH: Sumo Wrestling
- LBH: The Potato
- Scientists Identify a Medieval Artist by the Blue Gemstone in Her Teeth
- What Do You Know, What Do You Ask: Harappa grave of ancient 'couple' reveals secrets
- Archaeologists In Bulgaria Have Unearthed The Largest Supply Of Copper Age Axes Ever Found In Europe
- In a Muslim-majority country, a Hindu goddess lives on
- TED ED: A day in the life of a Mongolian queen
- What Do You Know, What Do You Ask: Who Was the Real Robin Hood
- Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero
- The Book of the Dead was Egyptians' inside guide to the underworld
- History as Mystery: Skeleton of Teen Girl Found Buried Next to Mysterious Pyramid in Egypt
- Ancient monoliths like Stonehenge may have spread from northwestern France about 7,000 years ago
- Hearts Ripped from 140 Children and 200 Llamas in Largest Child Sacrifice in Ancient World
- This Miniature Boat Was Meant for King Tut's Fishing Trips in the Afterlife
- Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists
- How climate change is revealing, and threatening, thawing relics
- Archaeologists Discover A New Profession In An Ancient Egyptian Woman's Teeth
- Britain’s earliest farmers were immigrants from Greece and Spain
- Archaeologists unearth largest Mayan figurine factory to date
- Researchers Have Recreated the Face of an Ancient Dog
- Two newly-discovered Egyptian tombs look almost as fresh as the day they were painted
- How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian
- ASI finds evidence of 4000 years old civilisation at ‘Mahabharat era’ excavation site, different from Indus Valley Civilisation
- The Antonine Plague
- Greek Gods and Game Theory
- LBH: Butter
- The Spread of Islam in Ancient Africa
- In a Remote Bolivian Cave, Evidence of a Trippy Ritual
- What Do You Ask/What Do You Know: Archaeological Mystery Deepens as More ‘Jars of the Dead’ Uncovered in Laos
- Analyzing Archaeological Evidence: 5,000-Year-Old Grave Reveals Mass Murder of a Bronze Age Family
- Large Mound in Russia Reveals 2,500-Year-Old Skeletons of Elite Nomadic Tribesmen...And a Horse Head
- How megafauna and humans shaped the apple’s domestication
- New research paints the history of East Africa’s farmers, and how they evolved to eat dairy
- Quartz Obsession: The Brick
- Quartz Obsession: Lox
- The rulers of every important European state from 400 BC to present day, in one amazing video map
- Cities from 9,000 years ago had pretty much the same problems as those of today, study finds
- Neolithic People Made Fake Islands More Than 5,600 Years Ago
- LBH: Sea Salt
- Gender inequality emerged during the Neolithic, new study finds
- Ancient Celts had good taste in their drink, new study shows
- How Did Cahokian Farmers Feed North America's Largest Indigenous City
- 4,000-Year-Old Burial Revealed on Britain's 'Island of Druids'
- Interactions Between The Ancient Maya And The City Of Teotihuacan Revealed By New Excavations
- This Is What Fruits and Vegetables Looked Like Before Humans Intervened
- Mysterious Etchings in Peruvian Desert Prove to Be Foreign Birds. What Did They Mean to the Pre-Incans?
- Ancient palace emerges from drought-hit Iraq reservoir
- Egypt's 'Bent Pyramid' Opens for First Time in More Than 50 Years
- Remains of 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem
- DISCIPLINES (Underwater Archaeologist): Divers Find Temples and Treasures in Sunken Ancient Egyptian City
- TED ED: How to Viruses Jump From Animals to Humans
- LBH of Color
- Ancient farmers irreversibly altered Earth’s face by 3000 years ago
- TED ED: The Rise and Fall of the Mongol Empire
- Incan Empire's 'Reign of Terror' Revealed in Four Ancient Skulls Found in Trash Heap
- Brain scans show how humans shaped dog evolution
- Ancient Tablets May Reveal What Destroyed Minoan Civilization
- 15 Mysteries About Ancient Egypt Science Can’t Explain
- Earliest evidence of milk consumption comes from Stone Age Britain
- Mysterious Indus Valley People Gave Rise to Modern-Day South Asians
- The Roman Empire changed the environment so much it cooled all of Europe
- A 10% increase in dog vaccination reduces human deaths by 12.4%
- Claim Tester: Fault lines could be the answer to Machu Picchu’s mystery
- Claim Tester: In Neolithic Ukraine, Big Buildings Hint at Democratic Assemblies
- Inscription Reveals Final Years of Life in Pompeii Before the City Was Buried in Ash
- The Maya had a larger environmental footprint than initially thought
- What was in prehistoric baby bottles? Now we know.
- Bronze Age burials reveal social inequality and marriage patterns
- Assyrian Tablets Contain Earliest Written Record of Aurora’s Sky Glow
- Ancient Egyptian Statues Use To Have Eyeballs
- Ötzi the Iceman's Unfortunate Last Journey Possibly Uncovered
- Found: A Prehistoric Bead-Making Factory Town Off the Florida Coast
- Dabous Giraffes: The largest known petroglyphs
- Painted Bronze Age Monkeys Hint at the Interconnectedness of the Ancient World
- 5,000-Year-Old Human Found with 'Extremely Rare' Form of Dwarfism
- Greece's Parthenon temple has had the wrong name for centuries, new research by archeologists claims
- Modern Tech Is Revealing Ancient Egyptian Tattooing
- How to Eat Dinner Like the Last Citizens of Pompeii
- Eat Like The Ancient Babylonians: Researchers Cook Up Nearly 4,000-Year-Old Recipes
- Otzi the Iceman: Drawing a Bead on a Mummy’s Ancient Arsenal
- Disciplines (Archaeology: Dating Methods): Ancient Potter's Secret 'Piggy Bank' Uncovered in 1,200-Year-Old Ceramics Kiln in Israel
- Disciplines (Archaeology): 50 Graves of Slaves Who Toiled at a Roman Villa Unearthed in England
- New Russian Gravesite Proves Amazon Warrior Women Were Very Much Real
- Native Americans didn’t make massive changes to the environment. It was the Europeans
- Ancient Assyrian rock carvings in Iraq show procession of gods riding mythical animals
- Trade was thriving in Neolithic Italy, isotope study shows
- This is what the voice of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy sounds like
- Princely tomb of Iron Age mystery man discovered in Italy. And there's a chariot inside
- Mummies of ancient Egyptian priests found buried with thousands of afterlife 'servants'
- These 3-D Models Offer a Digital Glimpse Into 3,000 Years of Athens’ History
- High-Tech Radar May Have Just Led Researchers to Discover Nefertiti’s Secret Burial Chamber in King Tut’s Tomb
- Tomb of Rome's mythical founder Romulus unearthed
- Dozens of ancient Egyptian graves found with rare clay coffins
- TED ED: The Egyptian myth of Isis and the seven scorpions
- Student discovers 5,000-year-old sword hidden in Venetian monastery
- Ancient Maya kingdom with pyramid discovered in southern Mexico
- Ancient Egyptian 'funeral home' was one-stop shop for the afterlife
- Gilgamesh tablet: US wants to send ancient artifact Hobby Lobby bought for $1.6 million back to Iraq
- Ancient Roman mosaic floor discovered under vines in Italy
- Was a Classic Chinese Hat an Early Form of Social Distancing?
- Oldest and largest Maya structure on record discovered in southern Mexico
- WDYK/WDYA: This stunning Uyghur complex dates from exactly 777 and it was never used — now, researchers know why
- WDYK/WDYA: Biggest prehistoric monument in UK discovered just a stone's throw away from Stonehenge
- Origin Stories: How Hinduism, the world’s oldest religion, came to be
- TED-ED: A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect
- Facial reconstruction reveals Egyptian 'mummy portrait' was accurate except for one detail
- WDYK/WDYA: Sweeping DNA Survey Highlights Vikings’ Surprising Genetic Diversity
- Claim Tester: Why can't humans digest corn?
- WDYK/WDYA: Study casts doubt on 'sky disk' thought to be oldest representation of the heavens
- History as Mystery: A Medieval Metropolis Existed In What’s Now St. Louis, Then Mysteriously Disappeared in the 14th Century
- The Little-Known Role of Slavery in Viking Society
- TED ED: The race to decode a mysterious language
- Inside The Erfurt Latrine Disaster Of 1184, When 60 Nobles Drowned In Excrement
- Archaeologists in Turkey uncover wicked 2,400-year-old Dionysus mask
- Ring of ancient, massive shafts found near Stonehenge
- Researchers found intact, 2.000-year-old brain cells turned to glass after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
- Watch: Egyptian Coffin Opened For First Time In 2,600 Years To Reveal Perfectly Preserved, Colorful Mummy
- Do you like cheese? You can thank the Indus Valley Civilization for it
- Map Shares Every Country’s Most Famous Mythical Creature
- Ancient Egyptian temple reveals previously unknown star constellations
- Leather Balls and 3,000-Year-Old Pants Hint at an Ancient Asian Sport
- Roman-era Egyptian child mummy scanned with laser-like precision
- Buried Under a Serbian Cornfield, Roman Military Headquarters Slowly Sheds Its Secrets
- TED-ED: History of Corn
- Roman subjects paid emperor piles of silver to leave them alone, inscription reveals
- The story you heard about Genghis Khan's death is probably all wrong
Unit #8: Expansion & Interconnection
- Why is the plague in the western US
- Thank the Ottoman Empire for the Taco You Are Eating
- New Viking Settlement Found Using Satellite
- 10 Strangest Things Used as Currency
- Black Death "Plague Pit" Unearthed With 48 Victims
- New York Life Insured Slaves: How Should Modern Companies That Profitted From Slavery Be Viewed
- Is Sugar the World's Most Popular Drug
- The Plague is Still Out There
- We now have a malaria vaccine that is up to 100 percent effective
- America Armyworm a Threat to African Crops
- A New Look at Greenland's Vanished Vikings Suggest Globalization was a Factor
- How the 16th Century Invented Social Media
- 700 Year Old Knights Templar Cave Found
- How Lemonade Helped Paris Fend Off Plague And Other Surprising 'Food Fights'
- The Haunting Face Of A Man Who Lived 700 Years Ago
- Misleading maps and problematic projections
- The Enduring Legacy of the Pocahontas Myth
- A key chapter in Incan history may be found in 400-year-old book
- The World's First Christian Country?
- Native American Town Found In Kansas
- The forgotten history of how ancient Zoroastrians helped create the old Silk Route
- From Ptolemy to GPS, the Brief History of Maps
- Women Warriors: The Hidden History of Female Combat Heroes
- Arizona fleas now carrying the plague, doctors warn
- First Female Viking Warrior Proved Through DNA
- Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks have been completely digitized — and you can read them for free
- Millenium-old Viking burial boat unearthed under a market square in Norway
- Scientists find blocks of polystyrene at the North Pole
- Follow the Paths of Viking Raiders from Norway to North America
- Medieval love of squirrel fur may have helped spread leprosy, study reveals
- Scientists use laser scans to study one of the earliest navigation tools
- CLAIM TESTER: Who really discovered America? (Spoiler alert: it’s not Columbus)
- Huge treasure of medieval silver and gold unearthed at the Cluny Abbey, France
- How Jews, Christians and Muslims exchanged knowledge for a millennium
- New archaeological findings show that Vikings “imported” from the Celts
- Paper strips recovered from Blackbeard’s ship reveals pirates liked voyage stories — at least, stuffed in their guns
- Fleas and lice from humans, rather than rats, were likely responsible for spreading the Black Plague
- Mysterious 16th-century Mexican Megadeath pathogen discovered
- ANCIENT CHESS PIECE WITH ISLAMIC DESIGNS DISCOVERED IN NORWAY, BAFFLING ARCHAEOLOGISTS
- The greatest Viking invasion of Britain never left — it got buried there, new research finds
- Like Lemons? Quinoa? Thank This Food Explorer For Bringing Them To Your Plate
- Was a Tiny Mummy in the Atacama an Alien? No, but the Real Story Is Almost as Strange
- TED-ED: The most successful pirate of all time
- TED-ED: The Bubonic Plague
- TED-ED: The History of the Potato
- The longest straight-line path on Earth is a 20,000-miles ocean journey
- Viking Runes at Hagia Sophia
- ‘Holy Grail’ of shipwrecks discovered, carries up to $17 billion in gold, silver, emeralds
- Giant hogweed plant that causes 3rd-degree burns spotted in Virginia
- Christopher Columbus and the potato that changed the world
- World's Oldest Intact Shipwreck Found at the Bottom of the Black Sea
- Sunken 17th-Century 'Pirate Ship' Discovered, Alongside Gunpowder-Packed Grenades
- Medieval book opens six ways, revealing six different texts
- Why Did the Plague Continue to Reemerge After the Middle Ages?
- European Slaughter of Indigenous Americans May Have Cooled the Planet
- LIDAR Helps Find Lost South African City
- Found: A Medical Manual Linking Medieval Ireland to the Islamic World
- The Black Death may have transformed medieval societies in sub-Saharan Africa
- How Magellan Circumnavigated the World
- TED-ED: What is a butt tuba and why is it in medieval art?
- Crusader skull used to spread disease and slash morale discovered by archaeologists
- Claim Testing: Ugly History of Witch Trials
- Wreckage of the Last U.S. Slave Ship Is Finally Identified in Alabama
- LBH: The History of Cannibalism
- Wildlife Staff Outside Denver Work To Stop The Spread Of Plague Among Prairie Dogs
- Marco Polo's odyssey spawned one of the world's first best sellers
- TED-ED Claim Testing: Are the Illuminati Real?
- With a Slave Rebellion Re-enactment, an Artist Revives Forgotten History
- TED ED: Taino Myth of the Cursed Creator
- The Adventurous Seafaring Women of the Age of Sail, in Their Own Words
- The Mystery of Florida’s Cannonball-Eating Spanish Fort
- Interdisciplinary Approach: Aztec gold ingot that defied the conquistadors rediscovered in Mexico City
- How Vikings Hunted Themselves Off of Greenland
- TED ED: What was so special about Viking ships?
- Plague victims in medieval mass grave were arranged with care by 'last chance' hospital's clergy
- TED-ED: Spells, threats, and dragons: The secret messages of Viking runestones
- Claim Tester: TED-ED: The imaginary king who changed the real world
- Why plague doctors wore those strange beaked masks
- Yes world, there were horses in Native culture before the settlers came
- Listen to Medieval Covers of “Creep,” “Pumped Up Kicks,” “Bad Romance” & More by Hildegard von Blingin’
- Oldest Viking settlement possibly unearthed in Iceland
- It Was America’s First English Colony. Then It Was Gone
- A Rare Day-by-Day Document of Life Aboard a Slave Ship
- TED-ED: The hidden treasures of Timbuktu
- Origin Story: California Is Named for a Griffin-Riding Black Warrior Queen
- 400 years on, the Pilgrims get a reality check
- Swedish runestones open gateway to ancient Viking civilization
Unit #9: Acceleration
- When the End of Human Civilization is Your Day Job
- Earth's Groundwater Basins are Running Out of Water
- A Visual History of Human Knowledge
- John Green: A Nerd's Guide to Everything Online
- A Visual History of Inequality in Industrial America
- Japan's Wartime Atrocities and a US Cover-up
- How many years does the space station have left
- A Brief History of Spacestations
- The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Geological Time?
- Why the North Pole is Moving East
- What Does It Mean to Be a Citizen of the World (TED Talk)
- Unearthing the Atrocities of the Nazi Death Camps
- Enterprise: A Brief History of the Space Shuttle from Nixon to New York
- WWI Telegraph Has Important Lesson for Today
- Last Man to Walk on the Moon Dies
- The True Stories Behind Hidden Figures
- The oxygen in the oceans has decreased by 2% in the past 50 years
- Climate change has already harmed more than half of all mammals
- Ocean acidification may be even worse for corals than previously thought
- Some scientists believe that the Arctic's melting sea ice can be restored
- Nowhere is safe from mankind — high levels of pollution found even in the deepest oceans
- Introducing the terrifying mathematics of the Anthropocene
- Five charts that will make you grateful for living in 2017
- Influenza: How the Great War helped create the greatest pandemic ever known
- Copernicus: the treasure in the sky helping science and the climate with free and open data
- Mid-century CO2 levels might be as high as they’ve ever been in 50 million years
- Humanity is getting another “Doomsday Vault” in the Arctic — a digital archive for human knowledge
- Graphene-based sieve makes drinking water out of seawater
- The U.S. joined the ‘Great War’ 100 years ago. America and warfare were never the same
- The Environmental Cost of One Day On Earth
- OUr Climate Future is Actually Our Climate Present
- How a Melting Arctic Changes Everything
- Today will be the first day the UK was powered without coal since the industrial revolution
- CLAIM TESTER: Nuclear Weapons Have Not Been Used Since WWII
- Infographics that Clearly Show Our Ecological Footprint
- This is why space armor is becoming more important
- Germany produced 85% of its electricity demand from renewable energy
- What was it like during the German air raids of England during WW2? This is the closest we will probably get to seeing it.
- Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
- LEGO Group achieves 100% renewable energy 3 years ahead of schedule, builds LEGO-turbine to celebrate
- Earlier this month, California broke yet another green record using over 67% renewable power
- L.A. lawns lose 70 billion gallons of water every year. “It was the maximum water loss possible,” said scientist
- India cancels plans for huge coal power station — because solar energy is getting so cheap
- Urban heat island effect could almost triple the cost of climate change in cities, burn economies to a crisp
- Superantibiotic is now 25,000 times stronger than its predecessor
- 1912 newspaper article discussing climate change is stunningly accurate
- Germany, Belgium, Denmark, pledge to quintuple the EU’s offshore wind in a decade
- 'A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene
- Study documents accelerated climate change in Spanish mountains
- Spreading The Word About The ‘Mother Of Wi-Fi’
- More cases of human plague confirmed in New Mexico
- Innovative approach blends solar energy and honey production for maximum sustainability
- Global sea levels rose 50% faster than two decades ago because of Greenland’s melting ice sheet
- Coral reefs barely survived bleaching, will be gone within the century unless we act
- Chinese province runs on 100% renewable energy for a week, saves half a million tonnes of coal
- The Tiny Satellites Ushering in the New Space Revolution
- Bad beef: Despite pledge, Burger King continues to cause massive deforestation
- Corrected satellite data shows 2.4 times faster global warming than previously indicated
- India just planted 66 million trees in 12 hours
- Sixth mass extinction: The era of 'biological annihilation'
- When Will The Planet Be Too Hot For Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine.
- How much does the Earth and its population weigh?
- Large carnivores like the lion or tiger lost more than 90% of their range in the last 500 years
- Behemoth iceberg, one of the largest on record, breaks loose from Antarctica
- Give Elon Musk 10,000 Square Miles and He Will Give You a Full Solar Powered U.S.
- Only five nuclear explosions are enough to change the climate and trigger a ‘nuclear autumn’
- A new generation of giant rockets is about to blast off
- 1st electricity-free AC developed from recycled bottles!
- India starts rolling out solar trains that might save millions of gallons of diesel
- The Battle for the Moon Begins
- You can now take a virtual walk on the International Space Station. Here’s how
- 'Mystery' signal from space is solved. It's not aliens
- Rush hour pollution might be much worse than we thought, new study concludes
- Who Will Clean Up Silicon Valley’s E-Wasteland?
- The United States slides towards measles epidemics (again) because people don’t vaccinate
- By 2100, hundreds of thousands of EU nationals will bake to death each year with only 3 degrees global warming
- Air pollution wrecks our DNA, makes us more susceptible to heart failure
- UN declares Somalia polio-free
- Chinese doctors replace woman’s vertebrae with 3D printed titanium implants
- This space probe is so small you could lose it in your backpack — and it just got launched into space
- Roadmap aims to supercharge 139 countries to 100% renewable energy by 2050
- The first new Thorium salt reactor comes online after 40 years
- Tapwater around the world is full of microplastics, study reveals
- Follow the last 30 years of humanity shaping the planet through the eyes of Google’s Timelapse
- New record: on Monday, 20% of Europe’s energy came from wind
- The devastating state of ocean pollution in one depressing photo
- ISS astronaut photographs hurricanes from space — and it’s mind-bending
- Not too big and not too small: when faced with extinction, it pays off to be just the right size
- TED Talk: How a Video Game May Help Us Build Better Cities
- Increasingly fragmented habitats may spell doom for the giant panda
- Another iceberg, quadruple the size of Manhattan, breaks free from Antarctica
- Botanic gardens might be our last shot to save endangered plants
- Eco-designer turns landfill waste into ‘plasma rock’ — a sustainable, all-purpose material
- UK’s massive wind turbines are setting the course for a cheap-energy future
- CLAIM TESTER: Elon Musk proposes landing rocket on Mars by 2022. The same system will also get you anywhere on Earth in less than 30 minutes
- How much fuel does it take to power the world?
- Dusty solar panels slash power output by over 35%, study reveals
- The world’s first scientific satellite is still in orbit
- Neonicotinoid pesticides found in 75 percent of honey worldwide
- Scotland bans hydraulic fracking — indefinitely
- Renewable flip flops: scientists produce the “No. 1” footwear in the world from algae
- China’s first space station is about to come crashing down on Earth, and we don’t really know where
- Netherlands announces plans to phase out coal plants by 2030, puts coal’s future in Europe at doubt
- CLAIM TESTER: It’s time for another Fake Apocalypse — the Nibiru version
- Transparent solar technology could provide 40% of US power if deployed across all glass surfaces
- Reinventing rice: New saltwater rice developed in China could feed over 200 million people
- Bananapocalypse: The race to save the world’s most popular fruit
- 60 years ago today, a Soviet street dog became the first animal to orbit Earth
- Scientists discover third Orangutan species. It’s already threatened with extinction
- TED Talk: How the military fights climate change
- The Zombie Diseases of Climate Change
- Humanity gets its second Warning: We’re crippling the planet
- Natural World Heritage sites threatened by climate change doubled in the past 3 years
- Google is now using 100% renewable energy
- Carbon Capture and Storage
- TED Talk: The Future of Good Food in China
- Auschwitz inmate's notes from hell finally revealed
- Rising seas risk washing tens of thousands archaeological sites clean off the map in the US alone
- Price of new solar energy plummets by 26% in one single year
- DNA just got a major update, with readable synthetic nucleotides
- The History of the Flu Vaccine
- The International Space Station is mounting a new device to protect it from space junk
- Palm oil deforestation is slowly killing the Sumatran Tiger
- TED ED: Can 100% Renewable Energy Power the World?
- TED ED: How Long Will Human Impacts Last?
- NASA’s new 2020 rover will look a lot like Curiosity but with some important tweaks
- Swedish company builds food-laden ‘Plantscaper’ to feed the cities of the future
- Humans are producing 9 pyramid of Giza’s worth of electronic waste per year
- The Mystery Behind Who Took the Blue Marble Photo
- No, chocolate isn’t going extinct in 40 years — but we are set for a crisis
- Speed breeding LED technique grows food six times faster than conventional farming
- China will grow potatoes on the dark side of the moon by the end of the year
- WHO approves a safe, inexpensive, effective typhoid vaccine
- What is climate, why it’s not weather, and why it matters
- How Dirt Could Save Humanity From an Infectious Apocalypse
- TED-ED: Why do you need to get a flu shot every year? - Melvin Sanicas
- TED-ED: How does the immune system work? - Emma Bryce
- A wolf has been spotted in Belgium for the first time in 100 years
- Chernobyl is transforming into a massive solar plant — and it’s almost done
- SpaceX to test the world’s most powerful operational rocket, the Falcon Heavy, later today
- The Top 5 Most Amazing Women Scientists in History
- 82% of all wealth created in 2017 went to the top 1%, report finds
- Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96
- Are There Zombie Viruses In The Thawing Permafrost?
- Is There A Ticking Time Bomb Under The Arctic?
- In Alabama, Reporter Says He Located Remains Of Last Known American Slave Ship
- The Doomsday Clock just moved: It’s now 2 minutes to ‘midnight,’ the symbolic hour of the apocalypse
- Japanese Space Agency offers volunteers $3,500 to spend 14 days in a simulated space station
- Gold treasure recovered from 1857 shipwreck to make debut
- ‘World’s most mysterious’ manuscript has finally been cracked after 500 years
- Amateur astronomer finds long-lost NASA satellite after 12 years of drifting around Earth’s orbit
- Five periods of mass extinction on Earth. Are we entering the sixth?
- Humanity killed off mega-herbivores — but climate change might warrant bringing them back
- TED-ED: Ugly History: The 1937 Haitian Massacre
- Russian cosmonauts accidentally set a new spacewalk record while repairing old radio antenna
- Beetles have shrunk 20% in the past century, likely due to climate change
- A Triumphant First Launch for Elon Musk's Giant Rocket
- A new Iron Curtain is falling over Europe — a “coal curtain”
- Claim Teste: Are GMOs bad? Science says they’re safe
- NASA could have an orbiting moon base by 2023
- Citizen science called upon to study liverworts and help quantify climate change
- Elon Musk: Mars spaceship might test flight in early 2019
- Stephen Hawking, in His Own Words
- Yikes! More than 90% of bottled water contains tiny pieces of plastic
- The Pacific Garbage patch is 16 times bigger than we thought
- World’s first mass-produced, 3D-printed car is electric, looks cool and costs under $10K
- Elon Musk publishes new academic paper detailing his plans to colonize Mars
- Mass extinctions don’t come out of the blue — and we’re seeing some of the signs today
- Scientists harvest first batch of Antarctic vegetables
- A hundred years later, Captain Scott’s Discovery expedition can offer important climate change insights
- UK sugar tax starts today — here’s what it means
- Silently, Portugal just produced 100% of its electricity from renewables for a whole month
- Climate Change Is Messing With Your Dinner
- NYC mice are crawling with antibiotic-resistant bacteria and viruses
- Roughly 95% of people live in areas with ‘unsafe’ levels of air pollution
- A Sperm Whale Found Dead in Spain Had 30 Kilos of Plastic in Its Stomach
- Researchers ‘accidentally improve’ a plastic-munching enzyme
- What if you could get WiFi and school tuition in exchange for your plastic trash?
- The British women who secretly served in the Cold War
- 10 million lives could be lost to superbugs - so how far have we got in the race to beat them?
- Inside the secret U.S. stockpile meant to save us all in a bioterror attack
- SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes
- California can expect more and more extreme weather events, due to global warming
- Australia’s “Impossible” Renewable Energy Target Exceeded
- NASA Plans to Send High-Definition Video of Mars to Earth With Lasers
- Arctic sea ice chock-full of microplastics, with over 12,000 particles per litre of ice
- NASA and ESA team up to bring Martian soil back home
- The European Union rules: total ban on bee-harming pesticides
- TED-ED: The Origins of the London Underground
- Hawaii moves to ban common sunscreen mixes in a bid to safeguard its corals
- World’s largest dead zone identified in the Gulf of Oman — it’s nearly the size of Florida
- Scientists measured radiation in a human jawbone from Hiroshima nuclear attack — and it was staggering
- Average atmospheric CO2 levels last month were the highest we’ve ever recorded, ever
- Why alligators on the beach and killer whales in the river is the new normal
- Human activity is messing with global freshwater movement
- Atmospheric readings show someone is producing illegal, ozone-depleting industrial gases
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degree C would save most global species, new study concludes
- Two-thirds of world population will live in cities by 2050: UN report
- New, powerful laser system proposed for the International Space Station’s defense
- Plastics are ubiquitous in the deep ocean — even in the Mariana Trench
- NASA wants to send a tiny helicopter along with the next 2020 rover mission
- Humanity is just 0.01% of all life but we wiped out 83% of all wild mammals
- China launches satellite, prepares for unprecedented landing on Dark Side of the Moon
- Three confirmed, six suspected deaths from emerging Nipah virus in India
- This April was Earth’s 400th consecutive warmer-than-average month
- There are now over three million electric vehicles on the world’s roads, after massive sales in 2017
- European Union considers total ban on plastic straws and cutlery
- TED Talk: The shocking danger of mountaintop removal — and why it must end
- How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource
- Banning plastic bags: Chile becomes the first country in the Americas to opt for a ban
- What is the Greenhouse effect, and why it’s (currently) bad for us
- India’s aquifers show “widespread” uranium contamination
- How long before the world runs out of fossil fuels?
- What is the Greenhouse effect, and why it’s (currently) bad for us
- A Crucial Archaeological Dating Tool Is Wrong, And It Could Change History as We Know It
- Does living near wind turbines really affect your health?
- A new way to know if you’ll catch the flu
- The Antarctic has lost three trillion tons of ice since 1992
- NASA’s Opportunity rover is fighting for its life in a Martian dust storm
- Ancient volcanism shows our emissions can trigger a mass marine extinction
- New material harvests water from thin air without using energy — even in dry, arid Arizona
- Stretchy, bendy electronic circuits paves way to new wearable tech, bioimplants
- Soil bacteria might hold the key for the next generation of antibiotics
- Python Swallows Woman Whole—What Experts Say About the Rare Attack
- The WHO includes gaming disorder in the International Classification of Diseases
- Your efforts to save water? They’re actually working
- Where 3 Million Electric Vehicle Batteries Will Go When They Retire
- Can 3D Printed Homes Solve the Urban Housing Crisis?
- Don’t Throw It Away—Take It to the Repair Cafe
- Renewable material made from crab shells and trees could replace plastic film packaging
- How to Take Your Next Trip Without Single-Use Plastics
- The Hidden Environmental Cost of Amazon Prime’s Free, Fast Shipping
- Parking Has Eaten American Cities
- Is This Good or Bad: English is Taking Over the Planet
- The Anti-Plastic Straw Movement
- What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media
- Sweden to reach its 2030 renewable energy target by the end of 2018
- Bacterial superbugs have become up to 10 times more tolerant to alcohol-based hand sanitizers
- How a design and culture revolution could help us tackle our plastic problem
- Here's How America Uses Its Land
- Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
- We can limit global warming to 1.5°C — but we need to change how we travel, heat homes, and use devices
- History of the Polo Shirt
- Oldest Arctic ice now breaking apart due to global warming
- The most popular exotic pets are also the most likely to wind up in the wild
- NASA finds ice on the Moon — raising prospects of a lunar colony
- Let's launch a satellite to track a threatening greenhouse gas
- Scientist Robbed of Nobel in 1974 Finally Wins $3 Million Physics Prize — And Gives It Away
- The First Woman in Space: The Story of Valentina Tereshkova
- Clean energy could make the Sahara green
- 87 Elephants Slaughtered in One of the Largest Poaching Incidents in Africa
- Elon Musk Is Blasting Someone to the Moon, and We Have Questions
- Claim Tester: A Beginner’s Guide to Living Car-Free (Is this possible in your town?)
- Lone Narwhal Caught Chilling with Gang of Beluga Whales in Canada
- Here's Why There Are Hundreds of Ancient, Mummified Penguins in Antarctica
- The deadliest infectious disease is becoming drug-resistant
- LEGO launches functioning wind turbine model to promote sustainability
- How Do Solar Panels Work?
- A Geyser Erupted in Yellowstone and 80 Years of Human Trash Poured Out
- The new global race to space
- North America's Nearly Forgotten Language
- No, Particle Accelerators Will Not Destroy the Planet, But Humans Might
- More Americans Supported Hitler Than You May Think. Here's Why One Expert Thinks That History Isn't Better Known
- European Union bans single-use plastic
- Here Are the Real (and Freaky) Experiments That Inspired 'Frankenstein'
- Humans have killed 60% of all animals since 1970
- How chickens became the ultimate symbol of the Anthropocene
- Irish dirt might cure the world of (most) multi-drug-resistant bacteria
- Japan’s new year resolution: resuming commercial whale hunting
- The Sahara swings between ‘lush’ and ‘desert’ every 20,000 years, in sync with the Earth’s tilt
- Arborists are bringing the “dinosaur of trees” back to life
- TED-ED: What is CRISPR and How Does It Work?
- Europe’s Mars rover named “Rosalind Franklin” in honor of DNA pioneer
- TED TALK: The disarming case to act right now on climate change
- The hottest 5 years on record: 2016, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2014
- Humans Are Eating Most of Earth's Largest Animals to Extinction
- The world’s farms are dominated by only four crops
- NASA's Opportunity: NASA bids farewell to 15-year-old rover on Mars
- These tributes to the Opportunity rover will break your heart
- The Mars rover Opportunity is dead. Here's what it gave humankind
- Why Can't NASA's Curiosity Rover Rescue Opportunity?
- This painting of NASA's late Mars rover Opportunity might make you sob
- NASA Mars rover Opportunity earns heartbreaking eulogies: 'I'm crying'
- What Will Happen to the Opportunity Rover's Dead Body on Mars?
- The NASA Opportunity Rover’s incredible visions of Mars
- Could Earth's Oceans Ever Boil Away?
- 19 Groundbreaking Discoveries by Women That Were Credited to Men
- Treated wastewater could release antibiotic-resistance genes into the wild
- Why India and Pakistan keep fighting over Kashmir — the history of the Kashmir conflict
- How the sapphire trade is driving lemurs toward extinction
- Norway recycles 97% of its plastic bottles
- Microplatics can also travel by wind, new study shows
- Even mountain glaciers are now contaminated with microplastic
- After a 300% surge in global cases, WHO and UNICEF directors say we’re facing a ‘measles crisis’
- Scientists treat first US patients with gene-edited cells
- NASA female astronaut set to break record
- Chinese Moon Station planned for ‘in about ten years’
- The World's Most Dangerous Toy
- A rare antelope is being killed to make $20,000 scarves
- 8 Possible Designs for the Notre Dame Rebuild
- Feral Cats in Australia Sentenced to Death by Sausage
- Vietnam to introduce at least 3,000 electric buses next year
- Beach Sands Near Hiroshima Are Still Packed With 1945 Nuclear Fallout Debris
- Mushroom Cloud in Iconic Photo of Hiroshima Is Not Actually a Mushroom Cloud
- 5 Weird Things You Didn't Know About Chernobyl
- Researchers film bacteria sharing antibiotic resistance in real time — and find a potential fix
- The ‘Age of Man’ is upon us — Anthropocene period close to becoming official
- TED Talk: These Bacteria Eat Plastics
- Picture Gallery: The 75th Anniversary of D-Day
- Claim Tester: Is Plastic Pollution Depriving Us of Oxygen?
- Debate: Botswana Lifts Ban on Elephant Hunting
- Sustainable, edible straws made from wild grass are zero-waste alternative
- Claim Tester: New Report Warns "High Likelihood Of Human Civilization Coming To An End" Within 30 Years
- May 2019 sets new record for highest average atmospheric CO2 levels in history
- Humans consume around 100,000 microplastics a year
- TED Talk Playlist: What's Happening to Our Oceans?
- June 8 is World Oceans Day! But You Don't Have To Wait Till Next Year To Take Action, Check Out What Others Are Doing and How You Can Help
- Preview: Chasing the Moon
- TED Talk: A Second Agricultural Revolution
- Where does your plastic go? Global investigation reveals America's dirty secret
- Quartz Obsession: Climate Anxiety
- Quartz Obsession: Composting
- Going 'Zero Carbon' Is All The Rage. But Will It Slow Climate Change?
- LBH: The History of Ice Cream
- Claim Tester: Humans Are Growing Weird, Bone Spikes on Their Skulls. Smartphones May Be the Culprit
- Modern-Day Plague: The Battle to Save the DR of the Congo from Ebola
- The History of the 5 Lost Lunar Landers
- Causality: Europe Reacts to the Treaty of Versailles in Pictures
- The New Space Race to the Moon
- Planet of the Apes: China is Apparently Trying to Bring the Movie to Life
- What Neil Armstrong got wrong
- LBH: How flight suits have evolved to keep astronauts safe in space
- TED Talk: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines
- Contemporary Archaeology: Woodstock ‘Took on a Life of its Own,’ Recent Archaeological Survey Reveals
- Nazis Dosed Soldiers with Performance-Boosting 'Superdrug'
- LBH: Yellowstone National Park
- LBH: A Brief History of the S'more, America's Favorite Campfire Snack
- How Language and Climate Connect
- For First Time Ever, Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Plant Them to Stop Climate Crisis
- What If Buzz and Neil Didn't Come Back from the Moon? Nixon Had a Secret Plan.
- The Marshall Islands Are 10 Times More 'Radioactive' Than Chernobyl
- A Sunken Soviet Sub Is Raising the Radioactivity of the Norwegian Sea 800,000-Fold. But Don't Worry.
- How the women of NASA made their mark on the space program
- Did We Mishear Neil Armstrong's Famous First Words on the Moon?
- The Story of 8 Unforgettable Words About Apollo 11
- Historian unearths more solid evidence of Ottoman Genocide in Armenia
- Climate Change's Impact on Collective Learning and Culture
- NASA fed some of its precious Apollo 11 lunar samples to cockroaches
- CRISPR Gene Editing Will Be Used Inside Humans For the First Time in Treatment for Blindness
- These 10 women were written out of history books
- Ethiopia “breaks” tree-planting record: 350 million trees in a day
- How A Few 'Renegade' Thinkers Helped Usher In A New Era Of Anthropology
- Over 250 Archaeologists Show Evidence Humans 'Transformed' Earth Long Before 1900s
- Disciplines: 'A solemn space': first interior shots of Franklin's HMS Terror released
- Disciplines: TED Talk: How We Use Astrophysics to Study Earthbound Problems
- Why Greta Makes Adults Uncomfortable
- TED Talk: Can Seaweed Help Curb Global Warming
- Tires: The plastic polluter you never thought about
- Plastic pollution is now in the fossil record
- Musk unveils SpaceX’s Starship on livestream
- The million-mile battery promised by Tesla is here
- We’ve significantly changed the Great Barrier Reef over the last century
- One Thing You Can Do: Talk to Your Children About Climate Change
- Edison and Tesla's cutthroat 'Current War' ushered in the electric age
- TED Talk: The cosmic war between monotony and creativity
- Meet the survivors of a ‘paper genocide’
- How the Victorians turned mere beasts into man’s best friends
- Ozone Hole Over Antarctica Shrinks to Record-Small Size
- Measles Wipes Your Immune System's 'Memory,' So It Can't Fight Other Infections
- The best and worst countries to be a woman
- Plastic-hunting barge cleans up world’s rivers
- Recycling plastic could become easier thanks to this new technology
- The impossible fight to save Jakarta, the sinking megacity
- Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world
- Quartz Obsession: 5G
- Tardigrade DNA Added to Human Cells Could Help Us Survive on Mars, Scientist Says
- Measles infected 10 million, claimed over 142,000 lives last year
- The Photographer Who X-Rayed Chernobyl
- Oldest known photo of slaves harvesting cotton
- An Engraved Tomahawk Offers a New, Native History of a Battle
- Claim Tester: These are the top 20 scientific discoveries of the decade
- Claim Tester: Here’s how corrupt climate change deniers want to change your mind
- 220-lb. 'Litter Ball' Found Inside a Dead Sperm Whale's Belly
- Raiders Of The Lost Crops: Scientists Race Against Time To Save Genetic Diversity
- TED Talk: The Search for our Ninth Planet
- Obesity and undernutrition now come together — over 1 in 3 poor and middle-income countries struggle with both
- The single parrot native to the US extinguished strictly because of humans
- China’s changing diet is increasing air pollution – and leading to more premature deaths
- Netherlands’ Supreme Court forces government to act on climate change
- Mainland Spain ran a full day without burning coal
- More atmospheric CO2 could reduce cognitive ability, especially in children
- E. coli can be modified to eat carbon dioxide
- 100 Years Ago, the Booziest January Suddenly Dried Up
- Meet Flamingo Bob, the poster bird for conservation
- Our long shadow: humanity places ‘intense’ pressure on 17,500 species of land vertebrates
- Ancient never-before-seen viruses discovered locked up in Tibetan glacier
- New coronavirus may have 'jumped' to humans from snakes, study finds
- An introduction to man-made climate change
- TED Talk: Climate Change Will Displace Millions. Here Is How We Prepare
- The Polish hero who volunteered to go to Auschwitz
- Drought and human expansion are driving the platypus extinct
- The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells
- New coronavirus may have started in bats. But how did it hop to humans?
- Auschwitz, Never Forget: Pictures
- TED-ED: The accident that changed the world
- Pablo Escobar’s Hippo Herd Is Treating Colombia’s Lakes Like One Big Toilet
- THE BRILLIANT FEMALE BRAIN BEHIND THE BOMB
- A farm boy became a fearsome warrior at Iwo Jima. And he did it with a flamethrower.
- TED-ED: How one woman put man on the moon
- 11 (sometimes) deadly diseases that hopped across species
- How does the coronavirus outbreak end?
- All the ways I failed miserably trying to live plastic-free for a week
- Lettuce grown in space is just as nutritious as that grown on Earth
- Why so many epidemics originate in Asia and Africa – and why we can expect more
- Two of the last white giraffes on Earth were slaughtered by poachers
- TED-ED Playlist: Pandemics
- Italy’s coronavirus response shows pollution decrease from satellite
- A Little Big History of Soap
- EU pushes for circular economy to have longer-lasting products
- The World's Fair that Ignored Half the World's Population
- LBH: Hand Sanitizer
- Long-lost bunker belonging to 'Churchill's secret army' discovered in Scottish forest
- Spanish flu: The deadliest pandemic in history
- Cities affected by air pollution could be more vulnerable to coronavirus
- Flu drug used in Japan shows promise in treating COVID-19
- Claim Tester: Could the anti-malarial drug chloroquine treat COVID-19?
- Local History: A century later, same rules apply to stop spread of disease
- Claim Tester: TED-ED: How one scientist took on the chemical industry
- TED-ED: How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis?
- Ozone hole three times the size of Greenland opens over the North Pole
- NASA funds proposal to build a telescope on the far side of the moon
- History in Pictures: The Surreal Sight of Disinfecting Historic Sites
- Jared Diamond: There’s a 49 Percent Chance the World As We Know It Will End by 2050
- Video: Economic Impacts from Past Pandemics
- CRISPR coronavirus test can diagnose COVID-19 in 40 minutes rather than hours
- Six new types of coronavirus found in bats in Myanmar
- SpaceX rocket returns to shore after historic astronaut launch
- Coronavirus is creating a new plastic crisis as masks and gloves end up in the ocean
- We should act now to prevent future pandemics – The Black Plague may be next
- There Are At Least 36 Intelligent Alien Civilizations In Our Galaxy, Say Scientists
- TED-ED: What is a Coronavirus?
- TED-ED: How Fast Can a Vaccine Be Made?
- TED-ED: How Do Virus Tests Actually Work?
- TED-ED: When is a Pandemic Over?
- TED-ED: Which is Better Soap vs. Sanitizer?
- How a Tiny Island’s Trash Heap Is Revealing Its History
- Why does this legendary Black photographer's work continue to resonate today?
- The uneasy story of how the Great Auk went extinct
- Avoiding single-use plastic was becoming normal, until coronavirus. Here’s how we can return to good habits
- Arctic Circle sees 'highest-ever' recorded temperatures
- Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From School
- Video: Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- TED-ED: The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you
- Anthropause: Nature Is the Biggest Winner From COVID-19 Lockdowns
- The story of how Manhattan Project workers tried to stop the atomic bombs 75 years ago
- Chinese fishing vessels are plundering the waters near Galapagos
- Nanoclay: the liquid turning desert to farmland
- TED-ED: A Brief History of Plastics
- Almost two-thirds of the global wildlife population has disappeared since 1970
- Centuries After Their Loss and Theft, Native American Seeds Are Reuniting With Their Tribes
- Claim Tester: Plastic food packaging now outpaces cigarette butts as most abundant beach trash
- Could Wearing Glasses Help Prevent COVID-19?
- LBH of the International Space Station:
- No place high enough to hide: microplastics found on Mt. Everest
- Americans celebrated Thanksgiving during a pandemic before. Here's what happened.
- Could we ever pull enough carbon out of the atmosphere to stop climate change?
- 2020 Marks the Point When Human-Made Materials Outweigh All the Living Things on Earth, a New Study Finds
- Despite some success stories, we’re still causing a major extinction, IUCN report shows
- Claim Tester: World’s electronic waste for 2021 could outweigh China’s Great Wall
- TED-ED: Where Will You Live in 20 Years?
Unit #10: The Future
- Burials on the Moon
- Humans have Caused 322 Extinctions in the Past 500 Years
- One Big Step for Man as Astronaut Controls Robot from ISS
- Space Exploration Then and Now
- Manned Mission to Mars Could Be Closer to Reality
- Space Junk
- Space Junk Video
- Do Aliens Exist: Signs Point to No
- Drone that will Explore Europa
- NASA Eyeing Venus and Asteroid for Next Robotic Mission
- First Private Moon Landing Set for 2017
- NASA Working with Students on Mars Airplane Concept
- Picture from ISS May Change the Way We See Earth
- What Will the Next Chinese Spaceship Will Look Like
- Search for Alien Life Near Dimming Star
- 12 Ways Back to the Future 2 Predicted the Present
- Inside the "Doomsday Vault"
- Al has better shot at getting into university than kids
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why Killer Robots Do Not Scare HIm
- Hubble Captures Images of Two Galaxies Becoming One
- Climate Change is Spurring Disease
- Superhero Material
- Man Emerges from Y2K Bunker after 14 Years in Isolation (Listen to the Podcast)
- TED Talk: How Humans Could Evolve to Survive in Space
- Scientists Have a Wild Idea for Hiding Us From Evil Aliens
- Kepler Spacecraft in Emergency Mode
- Inflatable Rooms Could be the Future of Mars Exploration
- Your Kids Might Live on Mars: Here is How
- TED Talk: New Superweapon in Fight Against Cancer
- Next Great Space Telescope
- We Can Program Life: How to do it Wisely
- TED Talk: A Provocative Way to Finance the Fight Against Climate Change
- Pop went the weasel and down went the Large Hadron Collider
- TED Talk: How to Read the Genome and Build a Human Being
- TED Talk: How Megacities are Changing the Map of the World
- How to Create a Bill of Rights for Mars
- Chernobyl 30 Years Later and We Still Can Not Fix It
- TED Talk: This Tiny Particle Could Roam Your Body Looking for Tumors
- TED Talk: Gene Editing Can Now Change a Species Forever
- Rising Sea Level Claims 5 Islands
- TED Talk: This Virtual Lab Will Revolutionize Science Class
- 10 Endangered Food to Enjoy Before They are Gone
- A Forgotten Space Age Technology that Could Change the Way We Grow Food
- The Earth 500 Years From Now
- Climate Change is ‘Devastating’ The Great Barrier Reef
- TED TAlk: A Small Country with Big Ideas for Getting Rid Of Fossil Fuels
- Where have all the elephants gone? People, climate responsible for decline
- What the 6th Mass Extinction May Look Like
- TED Talk: 3 Moons and a Planet that Could Have Life
- China Begins Listening for E.T. on World's Largest Radio Telescope
- Hubble Spots Water Plumbs on Jupiter's Moon Europa
- Ignoring the Impacts of Global Warming
- Space Wars
- What It Is Like to Float Around the International Space Station
- How Close are We to Sending Humans to Mars?
- World's Biggest Alien Hunting Project
- Have We Detected Hundreds of Signals From Alien Life?
- 2015 Carbon Milestone
- Newly Found Asteroid Buzzes By Earth
- CNN Video: Watch the Arctic Ice Cap Melt
- The James Webb Telescope is Ready for 2018 Launch
- TED Talk: Let's Clean Up Space Junk Orbiting Earth
- How Robots Will Change the American Workforce
- TED Talk: Why Are There Still So Many Jobs
- New Crop Spray Could Boost Wheat Yields By 20% Without GMOs
- Solar Power Had Best Quarter in U.S. Can It Keep Up
- TED Talk: Why the Earth May Someday Look Like Mars
- Consumer Culture: What Are We Really Doing to the Earth
- China to Invest $360 Billion in Renewable Energy by 2020
- Why There Is No Global Warming Hiatus: New Study Confirms the Obvious
- TED Talk: The World Does Not Need More Nuclear Weapons
- Ultralight Super Material is 10 Times Stronger than Steel
- World Has Lost 7% of Forests Since 2000
- Racing Towards Extinction?
- TED Talk: To Solve Old Problems, Study New Species
- Dutch Train Powered by 100% Electricity From Wind
- Recognizing the Benefits of Renewable Energy
- Engineered Spider Silk Could Lead To Better Wound Stitches
- Bumblebee Becomes First Endangered Bee in Continental US
- Creating a Culture for a Renewable Energy Future
- TED Talk: Next Step in Nanotechnology
- Decreasing the Cost of Renewable Energy
- Better Containers Could Stop Food Waste & Help Food Aid
- For the First Time in 37 Years it Snowed in the Sahara
- World's Richest 8 People Have More Money Than the Poorest 3.5 Billion
- 2016: The Hottest Year on Record
- Will Future Historians Consider These Days the Digital Dark Ages (NPR Pod Cast)
- TED Talk: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI
- NASA creates computers that can survive on Venus, 30 years after the last landings
- We can achieve the 2C objective, but we have to go 100% renewable energy by 2060
- UAE unveils plans for new city on Mars, to be built in 2117
- Winston Churchill’s lost essay about life on other planets and space travel
- Google’s Deepmind artificial intelligence learns to be greedy and aggressive when resources are scarce
- Could a £400bn plan to refreeze the Arctic before the ice melts really work?
- New bill could require California to get 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2045
- Are Cyborgs in Our Future
- Space travel for sale: Two people have paid SpaceX to fly them to the moon
- Is cold fusion possible? Myths and facts with Bill Nye
- White rhino shot and killed at a French zoo for its valuable horn
- How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution
- As neuroscience advances, new human right laws are required to ensure our minds remain our own
- China and Europe have talks to build a ‘Moon Village’ together
- Scientists discover the secret to breaking down plastic: Beeswax-eating worms
- Stephen Hawking Will Test His Theory That Humans Must Leave Earth to Survive
- Robot Performs First-Ever Surgery Inside Human Eye
- China plans to have an asteroid mining base up and running “in the near future”
- Who's in Charge of Outer Space?
- NASA will explore an asteroid worth 10,000 $quadrillion — four years sooner than expected
- We’re entering a new age of genetic editing, as flurry of CRISPR trials already gear up
- Living on Earth Podcast: Minds, Machines, and Evolution
- Elon Musk shares his view of Mars colonization: one million people living in a self sustainable city
- Chinese satellite beams entangled particles over 1,200km away, sets the stage for unhackable quantum network
- TED Talk Playlist: History of the Future
- TED Talk: Why we need to imagine different futures
- Gecko-inspired ‘Velcro’ could help cleanup our growing space junk problem
- We’ve been worrying about the end of work for 500 years
- Space Race 2.0: Japan wants to put a man on the Moon by 2030
- Inside the startup that wants to mine asteroids and transform space travel forever
- TED Talk: We Can Face the Future Without Fear, Together
- They’re everywhere on facebook, and now scientists have stored a GIF inside a living bacteria with the help of CRISPR
- Podcast: Inside The Global Seed Vault, Where The History And Future Of Agriculture Is Stored
- Fish farming could cover our demand for seafood one hundred times over, paper estimates
- Time Travel Isn't Possible…Or Is It?
- The first water map on the moon shines hope for human colony
- Bacteria shapeshift in space in response to antibiotics, becoming far more resilient
- The Mars Terraformer Transfer (MATT): what it is and how we’d use it
- Finnish project aims to turn sawdust into fish food and tackle world hunger
- TED Talk Playlist: Our Future in Cities
- NASA and Russia to work on new Lunar Space Station
- Lava tubes on Moon and Mars might be habitats for future colonies
- CLAIM TESTER: Senior SETI astronomer will bet you that intelligent aliens are due in the next 20 years
- We could power the whole of human civilization with wind turbines in the open sea
- Claim Tester: What Will Earth’s Climate Look Like by 2050?
- New CRISPR tools target RNA rather than DNA. They could fix ‘typos’ responsible for half of all genetic diseases
- How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction
- Here's what Earth might look like in 100 years — if we're lucky
- Boeing wants to beat SpaceX to Mars. Elon Musk: “Do it”
- MIT researchers design forest domes for Mars colonists
- Functional hydrogen-boron fusion could be here “within the next decade”, powered by huge lasers
- Scientists levitate largest object yet with an acoustic tractor beam, might one day work for humans
- Ecotopia 2121 shows what perfectly eco-friendly cities would look like
- The thrilling potential for off-grid solar energy
- Tokyo announces plan to build 350-meter skyscraper made from wood
- Massive flare in the Proxima Centauri system puts its habitability into question
- Energy-positive fusion could be available within the next 15 years
- Pee, Poop, and Perspiration Will Be Useful in Traveling to Mars
- Chilling maps show just how scorching 2090’s US will be, thanks to climate change
- Scientists create earwig-inspired origami, with potential applications in space travel, foldable electronics, and tents
- Dark matter may be a manifestation of extremely advanced alien life, researchers suggest
- TED Talk: Visions of Africa's future, from African filmmakers
- We Can Explore Instead of Believe: Inside the Epic Hunt for E.T.
- TED Talk: How We Will Become Cyborgs and Extend Human Potential
- Scientists are now able to bio-print corneas
- A Physicist Has Proposed a Grim Explanation For Why We Never See Aliens
- Claim Tester: Making babies on Mars will be challenging and might even lead to a new species of humans
- How Buildings of the Future Will Conserve Water
- The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?
- NASA is learning the best way to grow food in space
- The untold good news story of America today
- Potholes could be fixed by asphalt-printing drones
- TED Talk: Where are all the aliens?
- Claim Tester: It’s the year 2038–here’s how we’ll eat 20 years in the future
- Climate change could affect human evolution. Here's how.
- The ‘Next Big Things’ in Science Ten Years from Now
- The table of disruptive technologies: a timeline of industry-killing breakthroughs
- Steam Power Might Help in Space Exploration
- Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it?
- Trees help keep cities cool and cozy — especially if there’s a lot of them
- For the first time, renewable energy generated more electricity than coal in the United States
- Here's the Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge
- The TED Interview: Bill Gates Looks to the Future
- Babies born on Mars could diverge from Earthlings within a couple of generations
- Solar plasma observations bring us one step closer to stable fusion generators
- The Future of Making Water Drinkable
- TED Talk: The Most Detailed Map of the Galaxies, Black Holes, and Stars Ever Made
- Joshua Trees Will Be All-But-Extinct by 2070 Without Climate Action, Study Warns
- TED Talk: Why Governments Should Prioritize Well-Being
- Claim Tester: Our Place in the Universe Will Radically Change in the Next 50 Years
- Quartz Obsession: Cyborgs
- The World in 50 Years Project
- Why "biofabrication" is the next industrial revolution
- Bacteria-laden materials point the way to living, growing, healing buildings
- TED Talk: Are indoor vertical farms the future of agriculture?
- WDYK/WDYA: More than one billion people face displacement by 2050
- TED ED: Could we harness the power of a black hole?
- Researchers identify the exoplanets that can see the Earth is inhabited
- Solar power stations in space could be the answer to our energy needs
