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British author Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize. Her book Orbital, about ...

The mass execution of children was seen as not only a way to calm the rain god, but for a time it helped the community deal ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

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The doctrine of God’s wise and sovereign governance doesn’t make history easy to interpret. It makes living through it ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.