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The 1066 CE appearance of Halley's comet is famously depicted in the Bayeux tapestry. Credit: Leiden University Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. One of most recognizable comets in astronomy may require rebranding. But even if everyone continues to call the famed space rock Halley’s

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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. For generations, a misidentified medieval manuscript was hidden in a 474-year-old English boarding school’s library. After a careful new analysis, a medieval literature researcher can confirm the manuscript is actually the oldest and only known edition of Richard Rolle’s

The pain of anticipating a loss is much stronger than the thought of a potential gain. Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. We’re all guilty of putting off that big decision because our brains can’t stop focusing on potential negative outcomes. Dread shapes

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Cutting through Peru’s Sacred Valley like a lifeline, the Urubamba River is fed by ancient glaciers and flanked by Inca ruins, terraced farmland and eucalyptus-covered hillsides. It’s along this historic waterway that I find myself donning a wetsuit and helmet on a pebbled riverbank near Pachar

The secretive beer lab inside the headquarters of the world’s biggest brewing company doesn’t often allow visitors. But today AB InBev has something it would like to show off. So David De Schutter, the head of AB InBev’s Global Innovation and Technology Center—the official name of the beer lab—is showing me around the squat black building

Blink, and your eyelashes freeze together. Exhale, and your breath turns to ice crystals. Expose any part of your skin, and it's instantly threatened by frostbite. National Geographic Explorer  Esther Horvath  has stood in these conditions for hours at a time, documenting science at the very edge of human endurance.    Her work as a world-renowned, award-winning

For decades, oncologists treating prostate cancer patients were operating in the dark. They knew that adding hormone therapy to radiation treatment could kill cancer cells more effectively than radiation alone. But for some patients, this addition didn't help them live longer or improve their outcomes—and it also subjected them to hormone therapy's menopause-like side effects. 

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller  (UK). Europe is home to scores of excellent hiking destinations that can be enjoyed in any season. In fact, many of the best are simply too hot and/or crowded to be hiked comfortably in the summer months and really come into their own when it’s cooler. In others

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea has some physicists wondering if we just spotted one. Strings of optical modules like this make up the underwater KM3NET neutrino detector. Courtesy of KM3NET Introduction Nearly three years ago, a