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The March equinox is almost upon us, which will usher in astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere and astronomical fall in the Southern Hemisphere.This year, the…

Around 1,000 years ago, a pre-Inca culture acquired wild parrots from hundreds of miles away in the Amazon rainforest and then kept them captive in what…

A heavy space probe is falling to Earth today (March 10), eight years earlier than expected, according to NASA.The 1,300-pound (600 kilograms) Van Allen Probe A…

March is finally here, and this means one thing for the exercise buffs like ourselves — it’s time to take full advantage of this season’s spring…

A single gene mutation protects against Alzheimer’s disease in people destined to get the disease very young — and now we know why.The gene mutation affects…

A fireball meteor spectacularly exploded in the skies over Europe before raining fiery fragments onto buildings in a German town — punching a hole through the…

QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Taklamakan Desert, China [38.459991514, 80.87050739]What’s in the photo? A river and a mountain range forming a giant Y shapeWhich satellite took the…

An intriguing coin deposited into a bus driver’s till in England in the 1950s turned out to have ancient origins: It was minted 2,000 years ago…

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles” — the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only…

Sleep could encode epileptic seizures in the brain by repurposing the processes used to solidify memories, potentially making seizures harder to treat or prevent, new research…