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Every year, we have a blast covering a fresh crop of winners of the Ig Nobel prizes. After 35 years in Boston, the annual prize ceremony will take place in…
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If you ask YouTube users the most annoying part of their viewing experience, the majority would probably say the adverts. Ads pop up at the start, during, and after videos…
Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly…
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The comet 3I/ATLAS is well on its way back into deep space, but the famous cosmic visitor continues to fascinate astronomers. Since its discovery in July 2025, researchers have spent…
Lego kits have become impressively intricate over the years, but the company really outdid itself with a 2079-piece typewriter in 2021. Part of its Ideas series, the brickmakers released the…
Alvarezsaurids were mostly small-bodied theropods that paleontologists originally misinterpreted as early flightless birds, only to later recognize them as an ant-eating lineage of non-avian dinosaurs. For years, we suspected that…