The largest prime number ever discovered has been found by an amateur mathematician using Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). Prime numbers, as you likely learned in school, are numbers that ...

The cities provide a rare insight into life at high altitudes during the medieval era, and show surprising size.

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We humans really did something when we learned how to resuscitate people who had gone into cardiac arrest, because (by our ...

The team estimates that just 200 grams (7 ounces) of material could remove 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of carbon dioxide in a ...

The unexpected discovery calls into question the assumption black holes are formed through supernovae, with accompanying ...

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R /P FLIP, quite possibly one of the strangest maritime engineering feats ever built, has been saved from the scrapyard at ...

Its main mission, which it performed alongside various side quests, was to study and return the first-ever samples from the ...

In some corners of the internet and beyond, this is often seen as a violation of the second law of thermodynamics and thus ...

So, electric eels are mouth-breathing, 2-meter-long living batteries that poop out of their “neck”, produce enough electricity to potentially kill a human if they wanted to, can lay 1,700 eggs at a ...