Scientists discover world’s largest coral—so big it can be seen from space
Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic ...
Maps of Things Past
Loren Munk is unmissable. Dressed in white bespeckled painter’s pants, this 73-year-old artist shambles into New York’s galleries with a slightly crazed look. He walks around with his little camera, ...
Meet the youngest female pilot to fly around the world
Zara Rutherford offers young readers plenty of fun and adventure in I Flew Around the World, a dazzling account of her 32,000 ...
Could We Reach Other Continents If Oceans Didn’t Exist?
If oceans didn’t exist and there was only land between continents, traveling around the world would look very different! We’d ...
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'Snowball Earth:' Entire planet was likely covered in ice more than 600 million years ago
This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...
What did the snowball Earth look like?
We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...
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Philly’s Best Mediterranean Restaurants
Chef Fimy Ishkhanian has taken Northern Liberties by storm with Apricot Stone, a laid-back BYOB restaurant offering a fusion ...
First amber find on the Antarctic continent provides new insights into Cretaceous forests
Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...
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First Amber Discovered on Antarctic Continent
Alfred Wegener Institute and TU Bergakademie FreibergRoughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were ...
Do You Know These World-Famous Children’s Books?
Folk tales and beloved characters from cultures around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers. Test your knowledge of them with this short quiz.