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From Roman “fish scale” armor to Japanese samurai suits, these examples of battle armor were designed to protect and impress.

A 2014 photo shows a massive, iceberg-littered pool of vibrant blue meltwater sitting alone on top of a glacier in Alaska. Similar “melt ponds” are becoming increasingly common in the Arctic due to climate change and are further accelerating the…

This powerful Newtonian reflector telescope has hundreds of 5-star Amazon reviews and a previous Black Friday best price-beating discount.

The new city, dubbed Valeriana, was a dense urban settlement with temple pyramids and a ball court.

Researchers have found that forensic “DNA mixture analysis” is less accurate for certain groups of people with lower genetic diversity, which could falsely link them to crime scenes.

Language processing happens at speeds significantly faster than it takes to speak one word aloud.

Around 1,200 years ago, a cat “made biscuits” in a drying clay jug in Jerusalem, leaving behind the oldest evidence of kneading on record.

California is banning them in schools. The FDA says they’re fine. But synthetic dyes added to food to make them more colorful have a long, troubled history.

A simple device sucks koala DNA out of the air, making it easier for conservationists to detect the elusive marsupials.

A deep neural network was trained using quantum tunneling to mimic the human ability to view optical illusions.