You can save this article by registering for free here ... A visual puzzle inspired by organizing a sock-drawer. A quick daily flip. Finally someone cracked the code on digital jigsaw puzzles.

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Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One year on the distant ice planet is 248 Earth years, and one day is 153 ...

Nenad Lukic's Puzzlip generates free online puzzles. It divides an uploaded image into a grid and randomly rotates the squares. Click the squares to rotate them. It's funny because the copy describes ...

It’s the late Jurassic Period in the super continent of Laurasia, some 85 million years into the reign of the dinosaurs. The ...

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