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Peru’s Serpent Mountain sheds its mysterious past

New evidence may resolve a longstanding archaeological puzzle in Peru. A vast line of thousands of holes...

If another country tested nuclear weapons, here’s how we’d know

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

The First Radio Signal From Comet 3I/Atlas Ends the Debate About Its Nature

More evidence has emerged to support the natural origin of comet 3I/Atlas. After several weeks of conspiracy...

The Mysterious Math Behind the Brazilian Butt Lift

In the history of gluteal enhancement, Mexico City stands out. It protrudes. It was here, in 1979,...

The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he...

A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by Half

In a step toward the wider use of gene editing, a treatment that uses Crispr successfully slashed...

Trump’s Hatred of EVs Is Making Gas Cars More Expensive

This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As President Donald...

Unpicking How to Measure the Complexity of Knots

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to...

A special shape shift helps a shrub thrive in blistering heat

From growing smaller leaves to shape-shifting its insides, a desert flowering plant goes all in to flourish...

What causes the rainbow shimmer of ammolite gems?

The jewels nabbed in the Louvre heist may still be at large, but scientists have just closed...

How to Follow the Trajectory of Comet 3I/Atlas

the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas recently reached its perihelion, the point at which it is closest to the...

Woodpecker hammering is a full-body affair

Hidden beneath all their rum-pum-pumming, woodpeckers are quietly grunt-grunt-grunting. The birds exhale with each strike, much like...
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