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Originally published in August 1911 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “Some unexpected results are found from the movement against the production of…
With a five-meter-wide, 57-meter-tall rocket waiting to blast off from China’s southern island of Hainan, the nation is quietly making…
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to an unearthly figure with blood dripping down its fangs. You…
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The smallest conceivable length of time might be no larger than a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of…
This year, as hurricanes race into the warming coastal waters of the U.S., an array of seagoing robots will be…
Originally published in January 1898 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “When Jules Verne wrote his fascinating book, ‘Around the World in Eighty…
Massive dinosaurs and pterosaurs have a newfound cousin: a palm-size pipsqueak of a reptile, a new fossil reveals. Even the name of…