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To play polo at the highest level, you have to love horses or be filthy rich. Ideally both. A team might field around 40 ponies for each game and draw on a roster of hundreds of potentially playable horses for each tournament. In the gaps between…

The much-loathed ‘flying ant day’, a summer phenomenon, is set to return to Britain and…

The notoriously cruel Roman emperor Caligula may have been quite knowledgeable about

Imagine a tool from the Stone Age. You’re probably thinking of something in the shape of a leaf, with at least one of its sides fashioned into a point. But whether that point is sharp or blunt, smooth or jagged, you’re almost certainly…

For decades, scientists have theorized about how Mars reached its current state. Many believe that the Red Planet’s surface may have once been covered in rivers and oceans. But, if that’s really the case, what happened to all of the…

Astronauts can’t enjoy the bliss of home cooking in space, but they may soon be able to eat heartier and healthier meals with one staple ingredient as the star: rice. The simple crop has the potential to become an essential space food, which is…

Secrets from the beginning of the Universe are being whispered throughout space — and now, we know where to listen.

A team of astronomers plans to send a mini spacecraft to the far side of the moon in order to listen for radio signals from the…

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, are often referred to as “miracle drugs” because they can help patients, especially those with diabetes, lose weight relatively quickly. 

Patients…

Some upcoming summer days are actually getting shorter, literally. Even if it’s only by…

A bright flash on Saturn was captured by NASA’s Mario Rana on July 5, 2025. This marks the first time we’ve ever seen an object crash into the ringed giant in real time. Now, astronomers around the world are scrambling to verify…