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We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they yield nothing more than frustration and perhaps a headache. In [Bertrand Selva]’s ...

"The current rapid rise in day length can thus be attributed primarily to human influences," said professor Benedikt Soja.

When we talk about feats of engineering, very few megastructures on Earth rival the sheer scale of China's Three Gorges Dam. It's located in Hubei province, spanning the mighty Yangtze River, and it's ...

However, Polaris was not always the pole star. In 3942 BCE, the star Thuban, in the constellation of Draco – the Dragon, was ...