Earth spent 500 million years creating and eating dead continents
For more than a billion years, Earth covered itself in new continents. New research shows that those continents were quickly swallowed up again but...
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Nazi ‘Enigma’ machine found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
Divers trying to remove old fishing nets from the Baltic sea have accidentally stumbled on a Nazi code-making “Enigma” machine.
China claims fastest quantum computer in the world
“Jiuzhang” would be the most powerful quantum computer in the world, capable of performing some tasks 100 trillion times faster than the world’s fastest...
Toasty November means 2020 might nudge out 2016 as hottest year on record
Last month was even hotter than previous record-breaking Novembers.
Rare 9-armed octopus found off Japan coast 
Elaborate Viking ship burial may have held a king or queen
Archaeologists have uncovered a 62-foot-long (19 meters) Viking ship that dates back more than 1,000 years and likely held remains of a king or...
Mystery illness sickens more than 300 in India 
Microwave pulses caused bizarre ‘Havana syndrome,’ report suggests
A string of unexplained illnesses in Cuba, China and elsewhere was likely caused by directed, pulsed radio frequency energy, according to a government report.
Coronavirus outbreak: Live updates
Among the top news today: The U.S. is nearing an average of 200,000 new COVID-19 cases a day and the pandemic is likely to...
Ancient people may have survived desert droughts by melting ice in lava tubes
During a parched summer almost 2,000 years ago, people living in what is now western New Mexico crawled into the cold, dark belly of...
For Brazil’s Indigenous youth, visibility is resistance 
The Mediterranean’s own odyssey: An ecological treasure feels the strain 
Peacock party takes pride of place in nod to decades of turbulent history 
‘Sudan is losing another generation’ to war, Mohammed warns