For millennia, the lost city of Atlantis has captivated the human imagination, inspiring countless expeditions, theories, and debates. Was it a mere philosophical allegory crafted by Plato, or a ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Magnetic data collected in the late 1960s reveals how the ...

Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen. Fortunately, the scientific logic for many such ...