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Why is it so hard to reach the planets of our own Solar System? From Mercury’s impossible speed to Venus’s crushing atmosphere, Mars’s distance, Jupiter’s ra...

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US officials have described the MoU as 'performance-based', with Iran benefitting as it complies.

As the delivery vehicles increasing take to US streets, bans and protest groups are springing up.

The structure consisted of two posts that lined up with the solstices 5,000 years ago.

For mathematician Hannah Fry, the definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is somewhat hazy. But, she says, if we’re taking AGI to mean at least a...

Ancient Egypt? You've been great. Thanks for having me!I created this with the help of PAI2, a new release from Utopai Studios. It's helping me get these sto...

Israeli nationalists are increasingly flouting a convention on how faiths share the al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Get a copy of What If? 2 and Randall’s other books at: https://xkcd.com/books More serious answers to absurd questions at: https://what-if.xkcd.com/ This question comes from Sean, who asks: What if everything was antimatter, EXCEPT Earth? This one doesn't end well for us. But—unlike most scenarios involving the word "antimatter"—the end is surprisingly slow and drawn-out. Credits ******* Randall Munroe | Narrator Henry Reich | Writer & Director Lizah van der Aart | Illustration and Video Editing Ever Salazar | Chief Chaos Controller Know Art Studios | Music & Sound Effects What If? The Video Series is the official adaptation of the What If? books by Randall Munroe and is produced by Neptune Studios LLC. Randall Munroe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers What If? 2, How To, What If?, and Thing Explainer; the science question-and-answer blog What If?; and the popular web comic xkcd (https://xkcd.com). A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the...

The 61-year-old was found to have coerced his wife into sexual acts with men he found online in exchange for payment.

Elon Musk's rocket company has agreed to buy Cursor, which uses AI to automate the process of writing code.

Why did Hungary’s pronatalist approach deliver an early rise in births only then to fall back? And what lessons does it offer to other countries desperate to lift fertility?

A picture in a new school textbook had covered up the naked torso of the famous figurine with dark shading.

She wants to warn others after her husband pressured her into sex she did not want, she says.

The AD/CE system we use to date the year was introduced - more or less by accident - during the Middle Ages. Before its invention, the classical world used a...

Three men have been arrested after instructors failed to attach a rope to her before helping her jump from a bridge.

The deal to end fighting and re-open the Strait of Hormuz leaves the sides where they were 24 hours before the war - only with thousands now dead.

Tommy Thompson spent more than a decade in prison after refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins.

NEW YORK—Calling the breakthrough a significant step forward in xenotransplantation, New York University doctors confirmed Monday they had successfully transplanted a pig foreskin onto a circumcised human. “This successful operation proves that pig penises are a viable, long-term solution for circumcised patients in desperate need of working foreskin,” lead surgeon Robert Langford said of the procedure […]

Forget blocks and tackles, this is the tactical plan you need for the football.

The highly controversial trend lies at the intersection of Russia's war on Ukraine, new AI technologies and grief.

As President Donald Trump celebrates his birthday, we ask people who have worked into their 80s themselves about what it takes to keep going.

A niche group of content creators called "virtual parents" have become hugely popular among young people.

The right-wing Swiss People's Party calls the plan a "sustainability initiative", but opponents say it is a recipe for chaos.