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Meet Süss, a math widget after your own heart: Like many geometric figures, a heart can be captured in all its curvaceous glory by a single algebraic equation. The equation for a sphere looks simple enough:...

Rare 12th century ‘triple toilet seat’ that let Londoners defecate in open air next to their neighbours straight into a cesspit near Fleet Street headlines new museum display Triple toilet...

A new species of Xenoturbella was discovered in Costa Rica during a recent expedition. (Schmidt Ocean Institute/ROV SuBastian) Scientists on a mission to explore Costa Rican waters...

Where the last Neanderthals walked: Researchers discover 29,000-year-old footprint in Gibraltar linked to human ancestor Researchers identified animal and hominid prints at Catalan Bay Sand Dune  The...

Opportunity is DEAD: NASA confirms its 15-year-old Mars rover failed to wake up during final attempt to make contact, months after dust storm ravaged the red planet and forced it to power down The space...

The 5.8 magnitude earthquake that hit just outside Istanbul and lasted 50 DAYS (but nobody even noticed)  The tectonic phenomena is known as a ‘slow earthquake’ or a slow slip event  Earthquakes...

After 15 years on Mars, the mission of NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity appears to have come to an end. The wheeled explorer was only supposed to function for 90 days, but it went on to assist in many discoveries...

NASA is scrambling to save its Opportunity rover after fears emerge it may have ‘died’ NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover, which has not communicated with the government space agency since...

File photo: The A-68 iceberg separated from the Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017. Credit: Nathan Kurtz/NASA Earth’s sea levels should be nine meters higher than they are —...

‘Slightly sweet’ fungus that ‘tastes of mucous’ first discovered by Charles Darwin is unearthed in a pickle jar hidden in a basement 180 years after his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle It was...

Consider the clam. Imagine that its two iconic shells have shrunk into a collar, fringed with jagged teeth, which it uses to gnaw through wood. Imagine that its digestive tract and most of the rest of...

Back in 2012, Jamie Oliver hit the headlines, after he called a ground beef filler ‘pink slime.’ Now, seven years later, Beef Products, the company behind the product, has been given permission to...

Web monitoring system gives parents control over a child’s internet access and can remotely shut down their connection wherever they are Parents can schedule internet access and block sites with...

The DRONA lisa! Artist lights up the night sky by using a drone to draw elaborate shapes like Pikachu and the Batman symbol in only 15 MINUTES Symbols including a giant cube, Pokemon characters and the...

The nun who faked her own death to pursue a life of lust: 14th Century Benedictine nun made a DUMMY in her image to escape her convent’s celibacy, medieval documents reveal Joan of Leeds made a...

Apple could launch $200 AirPods with anti-slip grip coating this spring alongside a new iPad Mini and its long-awaited AirPower wireless charging mat, report claims Apple’s $200 AirPods 2 could...