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Jutras came close to the record a few years ago, but his squash split, disqualifying it from competition. This year, he wasn't taking any risks.

Joe Jutras’ 2118-pound squash makes him the first person to earn the record for largest pumpkin, longest gourd and heaviest squash

October 12, 2017

High-resolution video and 3D scanning brings the SS Thistlegorm to armchair archaeologists everywhere

October 10, 2017

Cool Finds

Canoe Churned up by Irma May Date to the 1600s

Radiocarbon dating shows the dugout canoe found in Cocoa, Florida, has a 50 percent chance of being from 1640 to 1680

October 10, 2017

Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), poses at the headquarters of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), in Geneva, Switzerland.

The grassroots coalition spearheaded a U.N. treaty to outlaw nuclear arms and hopes to make them taboo, like chemical weapons

October 6, 2017

Trending Today

An October Harvest Moon Rises Tonight

The full moon closest to the equinox rises soon after sunset, casting a glow early evening that helps farmers bring in their crops

October 5, 2017

British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro during a press conference at his home in London, Thursday Oct. 5, 2017.

The author of The Remains of the Day and seven other books explores themes of memory, time and self-deception

October 5, 2017

Close-up of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1893)

Arthur Janov believed encountering trauma from childhood could help free people from adult neuroses

October 5, 2017

The sarcophagus at St. Nicholas church in Demre looted by crusaders, which archaeologists now believe did not contain the Saint's remains.

Cool Finds

Turkey Claims It’s Found Saint Nicholas’ Crypt

Archaeologists say the body was not stolen by crusaders in the 11th century and is still located below a church in Demre

October 4, 2017

Illustration of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope

The long-delayed Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea faces opposition from native Hawaiian groups and environmentalists

October 3, 2017

The trio is the leading force behind the massive pair of detectors that can measures ripples in the fabric of space-time smaller than the width of a proton

October 3, 2017

In this Saturday March 29, 2014 file photo, a woman drives a car on a highway in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving. Saudi Arabia authorities announced Tuesday Sept. 26, 2017, that women will be allowed to drive for the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom from next summer, fulfilling a key demand of women's rights activists who faced detention for defying the ban.

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Saudi Women Win the Right to Drive

Next June, women in the ultra-patriarchal society will become the last in the world to receive driver’s licenses

September 27, 2017

Jennifer Zetlan who plays Rhoda in "Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt"

Family Travel

Watch a Dinosaur Opera at New York’s American Museum of Natural History

Sink your teeth into the family friendly “Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt”

September 27, 2017

It’s possible that 23 bodies remain inside the main cabin of the submarine, which likely hit a mine

September 20, 2017

Cool Finds

Researchers Want to Revive These 30 Antique English Words

The public can vote on their favorite from a list including hugger-mugger, rouzy-bouzy, nickum and sillytonian

September 19, 2017

Known as ‘The Sphinx,’ the icy spot on the mountain Braeriach hasn’t completely melted for 11 years

September 19, 2017

Stanislav Yevgrafovich in Petrov, Friazino, on October 30, 2011.

In 1983, Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov kept his cool and reported a U.S. missile strike as a false alarm, preventing a massive counterstrike

September 18, 2017

The Abajo Mountains in Bears Ears National Monument

The review, which has been leaked, also suggests changes in uses and/or management of several other monuments

Updated: September 18, 2017 | Originally Published: August 24, 2017

Cool Finds

Two Rare White Giraffes Filmed in Kenya

The leucistic mother and baby were filmed by local rangers in August

September 15, 2017

Gold miners were heard in a bar talking about killing 10 indigenous people in the remote Javari Valley

September 15, 2017

An image from Cassini's first dive through the gap between Saturn and its rings in April.

Before the probe’s final plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, here’s a look back at what we’ve learned so far

September 14, 2017