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  113 years ago today, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition arrives at the magnetic South Pole. His 1907-1909 journey there and back won him a knighthood, while establishing a new, Farthest South latitude of 88° 23′ S, a point only 112 miles from the literal South Pole, discovered by

A donkey ditched by its mom now thinks it’s a dog after it was raised among pooches. John Nuttall and his partner Gražina Pervenis live on England’s east coast, and when they saw the mother of a miniature mule rejecting her own foal, they decided to hand-rear him in their homes. 3-month-old Kye had

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University may have found a way to revitalize rechargeable lithium batteries, potentially boosting the range of electric vehicles and battery life in next-gen electronic devices. As lithium batteries

An album of Australia’s most-endangered birds and their calls has sold its way into the No.3 spot on national pop charts, beating Taylor Swift and ABBA in its flight path. Songs of Disappearance is a 24-minute album of endangered birdcalls recorded by Australia’s best wildlife sound recordist,

53 years ago today, the Soyuz 5 mission was launched into Earth’s orbit on a mission to dock with Soyuz 4. It was the first time in human history that two crewed spacecraft had successfully docked with each other, and the first time a crew from one craft boarded another, maneuvers which would be