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Pompeii's ruins reveal our morbid obsession with death

You need to watch the best spy thriller of the century before it leaves HBO Max

Fossils that "clearly foreshadow" modern humans are 30,000 years older than we thought

Ancient Peruvian politicians partied way harder than we thought, study reveals

You need to watch the most heart-pounding time-travel movie on HBO Max ASAP

Trading organs in space isn't even the weirdest thing about this new game

You need to watch the most underrated monster movie before it leaves Netflix this week

You need to play the riskiest Mario game of all time on Nintendo Switch ASAP

Researchers still can't decode this enigmatic 253-year-old map

Look: Ruins of an ancient star cluster reveal secrets of the early Milky Way

50 years ago, Richard Nixon made a radical decision that changed NASA forever

My heart will go on: What happens after someone else makes your movie first?

'Cobra Kai' Season 5 release date, trailer, plot, cast for the Netflix karate show

Insect art: Why some artists opt for invertebrate inspiration

'Blood of Zeus' Season 2 Netflix release date, trailer, plot for the Greek anime epic

'Boba Fett' is finally fixing the worst thing Star Wars stole from Dune

Behold! 8 of the most ferocious dinosaurs unearthed in 2021

'The Matrix Resurrections' is a full-frontal attack on 'The Matrix'

26 years later, the best RPG ever made still lives up to the hype

Can humans live forever? Why there may be “no limit” to longevity

30 years ago, the fall of the USSR stranded a cosmonaut in space

199 years later, historians still don’t know who wrote the most iconic Christmas poem

15 years ago, Alfonso Cuarón perfected the modern dystopian thriller

4 facts that make candy canes the most fascinating Christmas treat

Look: Viking artifacts reveal how they rose to power

Look: Ancient family tree reveals 2 surprising traits of Stone Age society

Matthew Vaughn: Why X-Men is “in good hands” with Kevin Feige [Exclusive]

'The Tragedy of Macbeth' reveals the biggest problem with 'Game of Thrones'

5 years ago, Michael Fassbender saved video game movies — by making the last bad one

Study reveals 3 mental-health benefits of dogs in a crisis

'Fellowship of the Ring': Recasting 21 Lord of the Rings characters in 2021

Linguists are using Star Trek to save endangered languages

Look: Ancient lyre from Kazakhstan could rewrite medieval history

How do you unwrap a mummy? New technique doesn't need human hands

'Spider-Man: No Way Home' star reveals the Marvel hero he wants to fight next

A third of fertility doctors still practice this unproven treatment — study

How did life arise? New study offers fundamental evidence for a disputed theory

'The King's Man' review: The most misguided prequel since Star Wars

Look: Ancient grave recasts gender roles in hunter-gatherer societies

The oral history of 'Mars Attacks,' Tim Burton’s misunderstood sci-fi masterpiece

How amateur radio fanatics launched the world's first private communications satellite

20 years ago, Tom Cruise made the most incoherent sci-fi movie of the century

10 years ago, 'Uncharted 3' stole its best idea from ancient Islamic myth

15 years ago, Mel Gibson made an apocalyptic thriller with racist undertones

A bizarre technique reveals new insight into the evolution of ancient humans

Look: Ancient footprints likely belong to a human ancestor we have yet to find

Look: Ancient jewelry marks a milestone in early human culture

Look: Largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in Italy changes ancient history

Why men are so into space (and why that sucks for women)

A cosmic ray discovery confirms a Viking legend