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In December 1911, Roald Amundsen and his crew reached the South Pole, beating his rival, Robert Falcon Scott, by 35 days. Scott and his crew didn't survive the return trip.

Traumatic tattoos aren't like regular ones, and they often involve pencils.

Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees along its 2,800-mile-long northern border, and it wants to plant 34 billion more over the next 25 years to complete its "Great Green Wall."

The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts told Live Science.

A Michigan man died of rabies despite having no recent exposure to a potentially infected animal.

Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding these accumulations and working out how best to mine them, experts say.

Earth from space A 2023 astronaut photo shows the moment the Alabama River briefly morphed into an undulating golden serpent, similar in shape to a Chinese dragon. This temporary transformation was the result of a rare mirror-like phenomenon known as a "sunglint."

The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.

Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

How would history have unfolded if Antony and Cleopatra had defeated Octavian? Would they have ruled the Roman Empire?