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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.
    • Is This Inscribed Stone a Notorious Forgery—or the Answer to America’s Oldest Mystery?
  • 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 proton and antiproton are incredibly similar — indicating that perhaps, our universe shouldn’t exist
  • 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
    • ​​Scientists have detected the earliest Big Bang molecule in space
  • CLAIM TESTER: Is the Universe Expanding Faster and Younger Than Previously Thought
    • ​​The universe is expanding faster than current physics predicts
  • 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​
    • Scientists nail down the 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 sights, safety, and science of the great american eclipse
    • Science Friday: The Great American Solar Eclipse
  • 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
    • The world looks different after today's big neutron star collision discovery
    • 4 Surprising Facts About the Universe We Just Discovered in a Cosmic Breakthrough
    • Neutron star collisions may have created most of the gold in the universe
  • Why the gravitational waves splashed by the merger of two dying stars spells a revolution in astronomy
    • Here’s How the Latest Gravitational Wave Announcement is Going to Revolutionize Physics
  • Researchers observe the first known interstellar comet
    • For the first time ever, our solar system is getting an outside visitor
  • 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
    • Direct Video Link
  • 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
    • How 1.7 Billion Stars Were Mapped With Dazzling 3-D Precision
  • 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
      • Katie Bouman TED Talk: How to See 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
    • ​Scientists have spotted a tiny black hole that may be just 12 miles across
  • ​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
    • Link to the Picture Catalog
  • 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
    • NASA just got its closest look at Saturn yet — here's what it saw
  • Mystery of the Bloody Glacier Solved
    • Antarctica’s Blood Falls Helps Unravel the Inner Workings of Glaciers
  • 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
    • Mars soil is likely toxic to cells — does this mean humans won't be able to grow vegetables there?
  • 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
    • Apollo 11 moon rock bag sells for $1.8M at Sotheby's space auction
  • 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
    • Cassini spacecraft ends 20-year-old voyage in style, crashes into Saturn
  • 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
    • More organic material found: New analysis reveals that Ceres’ spots harbor a lot of organic material
  • 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
    • First confirmed image of the birth of a planet
  • 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
    • TED ED: The Coldest Materials 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
    • Pluto Should Be a Planet and So Should Earth's Moon, New Study Claims
  • 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
    • ​New European exoplanet-hunting telescope launches into space
  • 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'
    • ​Focusing on Arrokoth promises to reveal the Kuiper Belt’s secrets
  • 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
    • Possible sign of life on Venus stirs up heated debate
  • ​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
    • CLAIM TESTER: How Mammoth Cloning Became Fake News
    • Why we shouldn’t bring back the mammoth and other extinct animals
  • 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
    • How the water bear defies death even in the vacuum of space by wrapping its cells in glass
  • “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
    • TED Talk: Hunting for Dinosaurs Showed Me Our Place in the Universe
  • 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
    • A lot of eggs in one basket: Paleontologists discover pterosaur egg bonanza
  • 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 unique types of ecosystems in the world
  • 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​
    • ​​The last mammoths lived on a remote island in the Arctic
  • 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
    • ​Fossil footprints show how dinosaurs and early mammals fared during massive eruptions
  • 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
    • Megalodons, the Ocean’s Most Ferocious Prehistoric Predators, Raised Their Young in Nurseries
  • 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
    • A Little-Known Mass Extinction and the “Dawn of the Modern World”
  • 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
    • Prehistoric 'Aspirin' Found in Sick Neanderthal's Teeth
    • Ancient dental plaque reveals what Neanderthals really ate for dinner
  • 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
    • Cave Art Made Over 30,000 Years Ago Suggests New Ideas About Ice Age Culture
  • 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?
    • Neanderthals in California? Maybe so, provocative study says
  • 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
    • In Neanderthal DNA, Signs of a Mysterious Human Migration
    • New DNA From a Neanderthal bone reveals evidence of a lost tribe of humans
  • 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 scientist-artist recreates human ancestors by studying their bones
    • What does it mean to be human?
  • 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
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    • CLAIM TESTER: Mysterious 9.7-million-year-old fossilized teeth likely belong to unknown ancient European primate​
  • 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.
    • NPR Audio Broadcast of Otzi's 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
    • Human hybrid — Ancient human relatives interbred with each other
  • Claim Tester: Study claims laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus
    • Reports of Homo erectus' laziness are 'moronic'
    • ‘Survival of the laziest’: species that consume less energy better suited to dodging extinction
  • 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
    • The World's Oldest Known Drawing Is a 73,000-Year-Old Hashtag
  • 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
    • New Species of Early Human Is Even Smaller Than the 'Hobbit'
    • ​Photos: Newfound Ancient Human Relative Discovered in Philippines
    • Unknown Human Relative Discovered in Philippine Cave
    • Bones discovered in an island cave may be an early human species
  • 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
    • ​Bad luck may have caused Neanderthals' extinction – study
    • Why Did Neanderthals Die Off?
    • Neanderthals may have died of diseases carried by humans from Africa
    • ​Neanderthals ‘kept our early ancestors out of Europe’
  • ​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
    • ​'Ghost' DNA In West Africans Complicates Story Of Human Origins
    • ‘Ghost DNA’ belonging to ancient extinct humans is still alive in the genomes of West Africans
  • 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
    • ​​Holed Up in a Portuguese Cave, Neanderthals Supped on Seafood
  • ​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?
    • Human Mammals, Human Hunters
    • Becoming Human (21:00 - 30:00)
  • ​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
    • Controversial cave discoveries suggest humans reached Americas much earlier than thought
  • ​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
    • Map of Clovis Point Recoveries
  • 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
    • Tens of Thousands of 12,000-Year-Old Rock Paintings Found in Colombia
  • 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
    • Archaeologists find new pyramid in Egypt
    • Remains of a new pyramid discovered in Egypt
  • 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
    • Photos: Ancient Tomb Murals Show Fantastical Creatures
  • 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
    • Ancient DNA reveals how cats conquered the world
    • Where humans went, cats followed — the story of cat domestication started 9,000 years ago
  • 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
    • Drilling Into The Secrets Of Roman Concrete
  • 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
    • Weapons reveal how this 5,300-year-old ice mummy lived -- and died
    • Ötzi the Iceman spent his last days trying to repair his tools
  • 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
    • Ancient papyrus reveals secret of how Egyptians built the Great Pyramid of Giza in 2600BC
  • 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
    • Photos: 4,000-Year-Old Artifacts Found in Swiss Alpine Pass
  • 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
    • Archaeologists find first ever evidence of Julius Caesar invading Britain
  • 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 Hagia Sophia
  • TED-ED: The Silk Road
    • TED-ED: The Great Wall of China
    • TED-ED: The Terracotta Soldiers of Emperor Qin
    • TED-ED: The History of Tea
  • 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?
    • Ancient Vesuvius eruption was so intense it cracked Roman skulls and boiled Roman brains
    • Photos: The Bones of Mount Vesuvius
  • 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
    • What made this ancient society sacrifice its own children?
  • This Miniature Boat Was Meant for King Tut's Fishing Trips in the Afterlife
  • Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists
    • Lost Cave of 'Jaguar God' Rediscovered Below Mayan Ruins — and It's Full of Treasure
  • 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
    • Photos: Ancient Burial of Elite Members of Nomadic Tribe
  • 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
    • First Neolithic City Was So Overcrowded People Started Trying to Kill Each Other
  • 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
    • Lasers are driving a revolution in archaeology
  • 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
    • ​Scientists reconstruct Ötzi the Iceman’s frantic final climb
  • 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
    • Boston Students Get A Glimpse Of A Whole New World, With Different Maps
    • Cartographers for Social Equality - The West Wing
  • 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
    • Direct Link to the Notebooks
  • 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
    • Podcast: ​Clues that the medieval plague swept into sub-Saharan Africa and evidence humans hunted and butchered giant ground sloths 12,000 years ago
  • How Magellan Circumnavigated the World
  • TED-ED:  What is a butt tuba and why is it in medieval art?
    • Hidden Images in Business Logos​
  • Crusader skull used to spread disease and slash morale discovered by archaeologists
    • Crusaders were a diverse bunch, genetic analysis shows
    • ​Freedom From ISIS Means Yazidi Women Must Abandon Their Children
  • 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
    • Roanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ Was Never Lost, New Book Says
  • 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
    • On This Day 100 Years Ago, The U.S. Entered World War I
  • 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’
    • How actress Hedy Lamarr became 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
    • Dogs in space: the adventures of the U.S.S.R. canine cosmonauts
  • 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
    • Efforts to fight plastic pollution are working: Fewer plastic bags found around UK waters
    • TED Talk: To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift
    • TED Talk: We can recycle plastic
  • 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
    • USGS Interactive Water Use Map
  • 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
    • Our Plastic Oceans
    • Best Reusable Straw Review
  • 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
    • Who is Going to Be the First Moon Tourist?
  • 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
    • Will Grizzly-Polar Bear Hybrid Wake People Up to Changing Climate?
  • 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’
    • ​China Plans to Build a Base near the Moon's South Pole
  • 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
    • World Ocean Day
  • 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
    • Crowther Lab Interactive Forest Restoration Map
  • 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
    • New York Times July 20, 1969 Newspaper
  • 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
    • ​'It was gut-wrenching': Berlin Wall tunneller recalls 1971 capture
  • 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
    • ​One in two American adults could be obese by 2030 — and one in four severely obese
  • 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
    • ​Quartz Obsession: Prohibition
  • 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
    • Sea level rise could displace 13 million Americans by 2100
  • 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
    • ​​The Pacific Ocean has become so acidic it’s dissolving crab 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
    • ​The Drake Equation
  • 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
    • ​A Disastrous Summer in the Arctic
    • ​Siberian town records 100 degree F day — the hottest in Arctic history
  • ​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
    • Why Paper Bags Are Worse For The Planet Than Plastic
    • What Happened After This Nation Banned Plastic​
  • Could Wearing Glasses Help Prevent COVID-19?
  • LBH of the International Space Station:
    • Defining Moments of the I.S.S.
    • ​​​History of the I.S.S. Infographic Timeline
    • How the Space Station Became a Base to Launch Humanity’s Future
    • Home Sweet Home in Orbit: A Visual Tour of the I.S.S.
  • 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
    • Human-made materials may now outweigh all living things on Earth, report 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
    • Stephen Hawking revises his deadline for humans escaping Earth — it’s now just 100 years
    • Stephen Hawking: Humans need to leave Earth
  • 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
    • Link to the Actual TABLE OF DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
  • 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
    • ​​Aliens on 1,000 nearby stars could see us, new study suggests
  • Solar power stations in space could be the answer to our energy needs

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