From his home in Possagno, nestled in the foothills of the Italian Alps, photographer Valter Binotto captured an image ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A herpetologist reveals the shocking discovery of one of ...

Geologists have sifted through over 5,000 minerals known to date and identified a handful of the world's rarest minerals, many times rarer than diamonds. These minerals were created in extreme ...

Scientists estimate that the human eye can distinguish up to 10 million colors. That’s pretty impressive, considering the interesting fact that we only have three types of color-perceiving rods in our ...

While many of those who grew up with the Super Nintendo (arguably Nintendo’s greatest console) wouldn’t trade their memories of it away for anything, the 30 years since the console’s North American ...