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When the glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, about 25,000 B.C., Indians and Eskimos (Inuit) gradually made their way across ...

Indian Greater Adjutant storks sit on garbage as waste pickers collect usable goods from a garbage dumping site on the eve of the World E...

Snowy Owl lives in the upper latitude of North America, Europe, and Asia. (National Geographic 2016)

(Adapted from National Geographic 2016)

Time is conscious experience of duration, the period during which an action or event occurs. Time is also a dimension representing a succ...

We live in an age of insects. About half of all known animals are insects. Scientists have found about 1 million species (kinds) of insect...

Mathematics is a way of describing relationships between numbers and other measurable quantities. Mathematics can express simple equations ...

1 -->   Medial Preoptic Area (MPOA): This is the area for sexual pursuit, found in the hypothalamus, and it is 2.5 times larger in th...

Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist whose fossil discoveries in East Africa proved that human beings were far older than had previousl...

The Earth has warmed 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit on average since the late 19 th century. Most of the warming has occurred since 1960, the pe...

As of June 2015 there were 438 reactors operational with 67 power plants under construction. (European nuclear society: https://www.eu...

Researchers in the U.K. have developed a way of storing digital data inside tiny structures contained in glass. The storage technology is s...

The home of the Shah's harem, where each wife and favorite has her own household establishment, thus forming a big family of several ...

Every year the Earth loops through a solar system crowded with other bodies, there’s a chance it could run into trouble. So far more ...

With 356 million 10-24 year-olds, India has the world’s largest youth population despite having a smaller population than China, a latest U...

Europe's imperial powers had been engaged in economic and military rivalries for decades, but these became increasingly virulent duri...

They are gemstone associated with the date of one's birth, the wearing of which is commonly thought to bring good luck or health. Sup...

Much of human history unfolded during the dramatic climatic shifts of the most recent ice age which began about 2.5 million years ago. Ou...

Scientists have discovered the bones and artifacts of early humans in many parts of Africa and Eurasia. The earliest humans, known as aus...

Aristotle's approach to ethics is teleological. If life is to be worth living, he argues, it must surely be for the sake of something...

He was an American petroleum engineer, credited with drilling the first productive oil well in the United States. Born in Greenville, New...

The Drake well at Titusville, Pennsylvania, was completed on August 28, 1859 (some sources list the date as August 27). The driller, Willia...

The phrase "mind's eye" refers to the human ability to visualize, i.e., to experience visual mental imagery; in other words...

Storm chasers photograph a spring supercell thunderstorm near Texline, Texas. Supercells are severe, potentially dangerous storms that ha...

Most ants have two compound eyes, which are made up of light-sensitive compartments called ommatidia. These compartments work together to...

The cost (in 2008 dollars) and the numbers of American casualties in various wars: American Revolution (1775-1783): $1.825 billion; b...

The first African to come to the New World may have been Pedro Alonzo Nino (1468-1505?), who was not a slave but a pilot and a navigator fo...

As a big wave breaks off the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, two worlds appear. On the right, a surfer enters the barrel. On the left, submer...

Looks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa will keep on leaning, stably, awhile longer. More than a dozen years after major foundation work, th...

In t h e 1 9t h ce ntu ry, so und sc i e ntifi c t hinkin g a nd n e w m e d ica l t ec hn o l ogies l e d to a d vances in every a r ea ...

Japanese Yasutaro Koide , 112, receives the Guinness World Records certificate as he is formally recognized as the world's oldest man...

The Ghawar field, discovered in 1948 in Saudi Arabia, is the largest oil field in the world; it measures 174 by 19 miles and is located ...

Capitalism is an economic system in which most of the industries and businesses in a country are owned privately, rather than by the gove...

Sometimes as the fog of sleep lifts, the mind becomes aware of its traffic. Like commuters on an expressway, messages speed across the corp...

The Corinth Canal in Greece is a deep-ditch ship canal, connecting the Ionian and Aegean seas. Built between 1882 and 1893, the canal is ...

In 1864, the "Fathers of the Confederation" met in Quebec to discuss the union of Britain's North American colonies. Three ...

Scientists today estimate that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old, but that number has shifted more than a few times over the last century....

I magine the brain , that s hiny mound of being , that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball ...