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Jules Verne sent his fictional submarine, the Nautilus, to the South Pole through an ocean hidden under a thick layer of ice. Written 40 years before any explorer had reached the pole, its story was, however, only half-fiction. In fact, there are hidden oceanic cavities around Antarctica, and our last …

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – The number of Americans who died from COVID-19 in March through May was likely significantly higher than the official U.S. count due in part to discrepancies in state-level reports, according to a study published Wednesday. According to the study funded by the National Institutes of …

The artistic impression of the luminous blue variable star that mysteriously disappeared. Image title (Credit: ESO / L. Calçada) In 2019, scientists witnessed a massive star that disappeared without a trace 2.5 million times brighter than the sun. Now, in a new article published today (June 30) in the Monthly …

This image based on data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft shows the face of the Moon that we see from Earth. The more we learn about our closest neighbor, the more we begin to understand the Moon as a dynamic place with useful resources that could one day even …

The last known members of the Beothuk indigenous people of Newfoundland are believed to have died 200 years ago. But the genes of these people have been found today in a man living in Tennessee, the researchers reported. Shanawdithit, a Beothuk woman who died of tuberculosis in 1829, it was …