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Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well, there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far)

At the beginning of the Triassic Period, with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea, the world is hot, flat, and very, very dry. But then 234 million years ago, the climate suddenly changed for the wetter.

Semiconductor manufacturers Samsung, Intel and Texas Instruments recently announced plans for new chip factories in the U.S. WSJ’s Rob Copeland visits Central Texas to learn why Samsung is moving to the region and what this type of reshoring could mean fo...

Codename Amerikabomber was more than just a top secret nazi aircraft, but infact the first stage in a plan to assult and conqure the united states of america. The inital strategy was to harrasle the population centers of the east coast, diverting US resou...

How This Central African City Became the World’s Most Expensive

Apologies for the final showing of the map, at the end of the video, being a bit too fast!

An aircraft carrier may have more than 5,000 sailors on board. To feed all the sailors on an aircraft carrier, more than 17,000 meals must be prepared daily. There are more than 100 cooks on board, which seems like a culinary miracle, but is it? How are m...

Chopsticks have been the go-to eating utensil in East Asia for the better part of three millennia. But why did they emerge there in the first place and (more importantly) why did they become popular?

A drought in the US state of Texas has unveiled the path of an ancient dinosaur. Footprints from the Acrocanthosaurus, a dinosaur that lived 113 million year...

The aggressive take-off profile of the Soviet TU-144 supersonic passenger airplane (right) vs. the French-British Concorde (left).At its peak, the Anglo-French Concorde was the epitome of technological prowess and super sleek design in 20th-century aviati...

It is the largest and most famous desert on Earth. Only Antarctica is bigger, but we do not think of an ice-covered continent as a desert in the typical sense. Most people associate a desert with the scorching sun, lack of rain, and sand, lots of sand. O...

Ian Bremmer warns this could be a particularly ugly week in the Russia-Ukraine war. Subscribe to GZERO on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2TxCVnYIan Bremmer's Quick T...

To celebrate our 25th anniversary, the Nexus Symposium 2019, ‘The Magic Mountain Revisited’, revolved around the themes and music from The Magic Mountain. As if Settembrini and Naptha were alive today, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Aleksandr Dugin debated on sta...

The Chicago and Sanitary Ship Canal is the path that invasive carp would take to reach the Great Lakes. So to stop them, the US Army Corps of Engineers has installed an electric barrier. Although for obvious reasons, I didn't get to see it close up.

The speed and magnitude of the climate change we are facing today is unprecedented. Heatwaves, droughts, floods... We are feeling its effects on our daily li...

Perhaps someone will call the story of this widely-loved and certainly respectable Japanese brand amazing,. It is inspiring, but at the same time it’s a typical fairy tale about a poor boy from a large family of an ordinary fisherman, who influenced the c...