An expedition is attempting to be the first to use a bike to reach the South Pole. So how can you cycle in some of the most extreme conditions on the planet?

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How do you cycle to the South Pole?

Startling new images from the depths of the Pacific Ocean reveal one of the planet’s most violent processes – the destruction of massive underwater mountains.

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Subsea mountains’ ‘march to ruin’

It seems like everyone these days is worried not just about eating healthy for the sake of dieting, but for the sake of real concern over what’s in our food. Put the two together and when we pay attention to both, we should have some super-healthy people on the planet, right?

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What Not To Eat in Ramadan

Where does Saturn get its rings? There’s a new theory: A large moon was pulled slowly into the planet, leaving a trail of ice debris behind. Scientists had previously considered the theory that some of Saturn’s moons had smashed into each other,…

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New Explanation For Saturn’s Rings

Not even Kafka could have dreamt up this degree of bureaucratic inanity. Though they are easily downloadable online to any human on the planet with a computer and an Internet connection, employees and contractors of the U.S. federal government have…

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Cables Off Limits to Gov’t Workers

China has wrested the title of the nation with the most powerful supercomputer on the planet away from the US.

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China claims supercomputer crown