The Shaggs, the sister group that stirred 'avant-garde, or just bad?' debates, have their story told in 'We Are the Shaggs,' premiering at SXSW.

For a lot of people who grew up in the early 2000s, "The Backyardigans" wasn’t just a kids’ show, it was part of our ...

If asked to picture the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), a reader is likely to imagine an old man with an enormous beard wearing a Spanish cape and black sombrero. The widely ...

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Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of years. Using ancient magnetic records and advanced simulations, scientists ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is pressing ahead on Wednesday with an effort to encourage U.S. exploration of the deep sea by accelerating permitting for companies hunting for ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the ...

A lot of weird-looking life-forms lurk in the deep sea, and this year we got some spectacularly close looks at several of them, including a goofy Doctor Who–esque octopus, alienlike Antarctic dwellers ...

The study inventoried thousands of mollusks, worms, crustaceans and other small marine creatures. Natural History Museum, London and University of Gothenburg As demand soars for critical minerals for ...

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Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...