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For the last few thousand years, a star known as Polaris has hovered above Earth’s North Pole, which is why it’s commonly called the North Star. Explorers have long used this astronomical marker to find their way home, but today astronomers are using the North Star a little differently. A …

Mars is the only known planet aside from Earth that has polar ice caps, but unlike Earth, the ice on Mars is mostly of the “dry” carbon dioxide variety. Naturally, there’s great interest in better understanding the Martian polar regions. A new analysis of Mars using data from NASA’s Mars …

(Photo: Anne Nygård/Unsplash)The remains of a man buried in what’s now Alabama reveals that the continent’s oldest skull surgery occurred at least 3,000 years ago. The man’s skeleton was discovered during the 1940s at Little Bear Creek, a reservoir in northwest Alabama. The skeleton was accompanied by 162 others under …

The Cronica universalis, written in Latin by the Milanese friar Galvaneus Flamma (in Italian, Galvano Fiamma, 1283 – c. 1345), contains an astonishing reference to a land named Marckalada (terra que dicitur Marckalada), situated west from Greenland. This land is recognizable as the Markland mentioned by some Icelandic sources and …

Juno Sees North Pole of Ganymede in Infrared Light The Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured the first infrared images of the north pole of Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System and one of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. The north …

Fresh off closing a $10 million fund earlier this year for Latin American startups, 500 Startups has pulled together $15 million in capital so far for a new fund that will exclusively target startups in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Despite just closing today, 500 Startups has already made …

Researchers digging at the Cerutti Mastodon site, an archaeological site from the early late Pleistocene epoch near San Diego, California, found animal remains and stone tools that show the first humans were living in North America much earlier than previously thought. A concentration of fossil bone and rock at the …

Researchers, using a camera aboard ESA’s Mars Express, have created a stunning mosaic of Mars’ north polar region. Perspective view of Mars’ north polar ice cap and its distinctive dark troughs forming a spiral-like pattern. The view is based on images taken by ESA’s Mars Express and generated using elevation …

Humans first arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of ancient animal bones found in northern Yukon, Canada. Top: cut marks on a horse mandible from Bluefish Cave II; the specimen is dated to 19,650 years before present; the bone surface is a …

Learn how to make Malai Kofta, an absolute delight for all the vegetarians as well as the non vegetarians. Rich and creamy malai kofta delights almost every …