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Perched on a knife-edge peak in Washington State, this fire lookout cabin defied logic and gravity. Built in the 1930s, it was used for only four years before being abandoned for unclear reasons. The ...

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For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

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From its unique landscapes at White Sands National Park and Bisti-Badlands/De-Na-Zin Wilderness to one-of-a-kind attractions ...

Hell’s Half Acre, an otherworldly alien landscape in a remote section of central Wyoming is reopening in May. The area was ...

Gene Roddenberry is a name as popular as J.R.R. Tolkien and Frank Herbert, but unlike those two creators, Roddenberry's name ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

We don’t need fewer opinions. We need fewer systems that profit from turning disagreement into identity warfare.

Now, the planets of Tau Andromeda are overgrown with wildlife, nature reclaiming the skyscrapers of a once-advanced ...