Discovery

What Was The First Beverage?

When exactly did we start drinking other things, and why? To find out, we h...

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Kiribati: A Drowning Paradise in the South Pacific

Climate change and rising sea levels mean the island nation of Kiribati in...

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Henderson Island: Exploring the Untouched Paradise of t...

Herman Melville's Moby Dick is thought to be based upon the true story of t...

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The Tragedy of the One Guy Who Was Right About the Troj...

Explore the famous depictions of the tale of Laocoön, who the gods punished...

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The Mystery of South America's False Horses

How did the "false horse," Thoatherium, and its relatives survive when thei...

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Jungle Atlantis

In June 2013, an international team of archaeologists uncovered a lost urba...

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The First Ghost Stories - Dr. Irving Finkel

Learn how the near-universal belief in ghosts goes back to the beginning of...

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Rarely-Seen Items Recovered From Titanic Wreckage

Since the wreckage of the RMS Titanic was discovered in 1985, 73 years afte...

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An Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Explain the Universe

Why would astrophysicists care about a two millennia old Roman shipwreck be...

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7 Unsolved Mysteries About the Deep Ocean

Despite decades of diligent research, there's still so much that we don't k...

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How Clarinets, Bagpipes, Pianos, and More Are Made

Those How It's Made background tracks are music to our ears as we take an i...

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The Most Dangerous Elements on the Periodic Table

Within the periodic table loom many potential hazardous elements. Some elem...

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How Baboons Led Us to a Lost Civilization

Everyone knows where Punt is, right? The Ancient Egyptians sure did — they...

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The World's Biggest Geode Is A Literal Cave

If you were really into gift shops as a kid, you probably loved to look at...

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Cats and Egyptian Mythology

Learn about the divine reverence Egyptians had for cats, elevating them to...

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Why Fish Are Better at Breathing Than You Are

Explore how fish use their gills to breathe, and how these processes make t...

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