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We've all dealt with bad internet connections. But could the entire internet ever collapse?

Five vital organs are essential for life, but survival is more medically complex.

The actor embarks on a "thrilling adventure" across seven expeditions — here's how to watch "Pole to Pole with Will Smith" online from anywhere.

In the weeks following a ski accident, a German man experienced seizures when he completed sudoku puzzles.

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major seismic experiment in the 1980s and 90s. But the quake ended up being 11 years late. In this excerpt from "When Worlds Quake," geophysicist Hrvoje Tkalčić looks at why predicting earthquakes is so difficult.

Earth from space A 2025 satellite image shows a series of ghostly ice swirls sculpted on the surface of Lake Michigan by strong winds during an extreme cold snap that covered Chicago in a blanket of snow.

Stone Age people in Macedonia created goddess figurines whose bottom half was a house.

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

The oldest river predates the dinosaurs. But how do we know this?

The hydrochloric acid in your stomach can burn through metal — so why doesn't it burn through your stomach?