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Nikola Tesla, pioneering inventor, died penniless and unrecognized. We have previously mentioned his hipster cred, but it has taken until...

The most explicit look yet at the impact that wiped out more than half of all life on earth

The first season of "Connections" is one of the best documentaries ever

Looking at a century of so-called progress

As part a two-year excavation in one of southeastern Armenia's caves, archeologists discovered a well-preserved brain of a young girl, announcing it as the oldest known human brain from the Old World

How global warming could leave us thirsting for the old days

Ever wonder what a museum’s nebulous “permanent collection” looks like when it’s not hanging on the gallery walls? Especially a...

It’s hard to believe that something as monumentally huge as the giant squid—huge in both sheer physical size and its...