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Twenty-six million cubic kilometres of ice sit on AntarcticaThe Antarctic ice sheet blankets ninety-eight percent of the continent across 14 million square kilometres, averaging more than two kilometres thick and holding about 26.5 million…
Twenty-two crested parrots define Australasian skiesCockatoos are twenty-two Cacatuidae species native to Australasia, crest-flashing cousins of true parrots. Plumage runs white, grey, or black with color accents. They flock over s…
Twenty20 cricket was a marketing team's answer to empty county groundsBy 2002 English county cricket was playing to thinning crowds. So four staff from the England and Wales Cricket Board's marketing, sales and sponsorship teams pitched a 20-over ga…
Twi-Fante is a complex dialect continuum that shapes the identity of millions in Ghana.Spoken by nearly half of Ghanaians as a native tongue, Twi-Fante is a vibrant language family with a history of migration and cultural influence. From its unique naming traditions…
Twice bankrupt, Como climbed from Italy's amateur tier to the Champions LeagueIn 2004 Como went bankrupt and was thrown out of professional football entirely, restarting in Italy's top amateur division. In 2016 it collapsed again. Yet within a decade of its…
Twin brothers with different fathers, and one immortality split between themCastor and Pollux shared a mother, Leda, but in the best-known version only Pollux was the son of Zeus. When mortal Castor was killed, Pollux gave up half his immortality so they …
Twin Peaks returned after 25 years, and critics called it the decade's best filmTwin Peaks premiered on ABC in April 1990 as a small-town murder mystery and quickly became something stranger: a mix of detective story, soap opera and dream logic. Cancelled in …
Twins reach for each other in the womb long before anyone teaches them mannersUltrasound studies of twin pregnancies found that from the 14th week of gestation, twin foetuses make movements aimed specifically at each other, and these contacts grow longer an…
Twins share ridge types but never identical printsA fingerprint is the mark left by friction ridges on a fingertip. Those raised epidermal lines are detailed, durable, and usually unique across a lifetime, which is why police sti…
Twisted Sister built their legend on slapstick, makeup, and thousands of grueling club shows.Before they became MTV icons, Twisted Sister spent years playing five shows a night in local clubs. Their journey from a New Jersey glitter band to heavy metal royalty was defined…
Twitch began as a side category and ended up swallowing its parentJustin.tv was a general streaming site with many categories, but one kept outgrowing the rest: people watching other people play video games. In 2011 the founders spun gaming off …
Twitchers are named after one nervous British birdwatcher from the 1950sSerious rare-bird chasers in Britain are called twitchers, a word coined in the 1950s for the jittery behaviour of a birdwatcher named Howard Medhurst. Their world has its own sla…
Twitching frog legs gave Luigi Galvani a place in the dictionaryIn 1780 a Bologna anatomist watched the legs of a dead frog jerk when an electric spark struck them. Luigi Galvani spent more than a decade chasing what he called animal electrici…
Twitter began as twttr, a side project inside a podcast companyBefore it was X, and before it was even Twitter, the service was called twttr. The vowel-free name, credited to co-founder Noah Glass, echoed Flickr and the five-digit text messag…
Two 17th-century conflicts between Dutch settlers and the Esopus tribe reshaped Ulster CountyIn the mid-1600s, the Esopus people and Dutch colonists fought two brutal wars over land in what is now New York. Driven by broken peace treaties, surprise attacks, and the strugg…
Two 1993 bomb attacks in Warrington left a lasting scar on British-Irish relations.In early 1993, the Provisional IRA targeted Warrington, England, with two separate bombing campaigns. While the first attack on a gas facility caused massive destruction but no ca…
Two Almas: One Michigan college, one Swedish health studyThe name Alma can lead you to a historic Michigan campus or a massive Swedish health study. While one fosters liberal arts and Scottish traditions, the other tracks the developmen…
Two American gunships vanished in a violent storm, remaining perfectly preserved for two centuries.In the depths of Lake Ontario lie the Hamilton and the Scourge, two American gunships that sank during the War of 1812. This documentary follows a team of experts attempting to ex…
Two ant movies in one autumn, and the feud that came with themIn 1998 two computer-animated films about a misfit worker ant winning a princess reached cinemas about a month apart. DreamWorks released Antz first; Pixar's A Bug's Life followed…
Two aristocratic women defied social norms to build a Gothic fantasy togetherIn 1778, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby abandoned the expectations of the Irish aristocracy. Instead of facing arranged marriages, they fled to North Wales to create a life of …
Two armies were sent to fetch one monk, and China's Buddhism changedKumārajīva was so famous that a Chinese emperor dispatched an army to conquer his homeland and bring him back, and a later ruler sent another to free him from the warlords holding…
Two astronauts begin a historic one-year mission aboard the International Space StationNASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have arrived at the International Space Station. Their mission marks the start of a year-long study into how e…
Two astronauts perform a critical maintenance mission outside the International Space StationThis video covers a high-stakes spacewalk conducted by NASA astronauts to upgrade the International Space Station. Watch as they perform delicate repairs and installations in the …
Two astronomers cleaned pigeon droppings from their antenna and found the Big Bang's afterglow.In 1964 two radio astronomers at Bell Labs could not get rid of a faint hiss in their antenna. They evicted nesting pigeons and cleaned out their droppings, but it stayed. It was …
Two August mornings that ended a world war’s Pacific chapterIn early August 1945, U.S. forces released nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, with estimated deaths between 150,000 and 246,000 people, mostly civilians, in World W…
Two Australian locations hold the key to twenty million years of mammalian evolutionary history.Riversleigh and Naracoorte are not just fossil sites; they are windows into a deep past. Recognized as two of the ten most significant fossil locations globally, these Australian …
Two aviation experts face off in a high-stakes test of aerospace knowledge.This video introduces the first round of the Knowledge Knockout competition. It features a backyard jet builder and a military helicopter pilot competing to prove their expertise …
Two billion years ago, a microscopic merger fundamentally changed the course of life forever.Imagine a tiny organism moving inside another, forming a permanent partnership that never ended. This ancient, intimate union between two microbes is not just a historical curiosi…
Two black holes collided and stretched Earth by a fraction of a proton.On 14 September 2015 a tremor in spacetime, sent out by two black holes merging over a billion light-years away, passed through Earth. Two detectors in the US caught it, a change …
Two BMW engineers secretly built the same hot rod, and the 2002 was bornBMW's product planning chief and the designer of its M10 engine each dropped a two-litre motor into a small 1600-2 for their own use, without telling the other. When they discover…
Two Boeing researchers named computer graphics in 1960Computer graphics is the craft of making and handling images with computers, and it now drives nearly every screen you own. The name dates from 1960, coined at Boeing by Verne Hud…
Two bones you hear with were once part of your ancestors' jawEvery lizard, crocodile and bird hinges its jaw on two small bones, the articular and the quadrate. Mammals don't. During the Jurassic those two bones shrank and migrated into the…
Two boys digging for a football post found Saint Monica's lost epitaphIn the summer of 1945, two boys dug a hole beside the church of Santa Aurea in Ostia to plant a football goalpost. They struck a fragment of the original gravestone of Monica, mot…
Two breakthrough vaccines are finally turning the tide against the world's deadliest childhood parasite.For decades, malaria defied every attempt at a vaccine due to its complex life cycle and genetic shape-shifting. Now, two WHO-approved vaccines are protecting millions of children…
Two brightness readings through coloured filters can reveal a star's temperatureMeasure a star through a blue filter, then a yellow-green one, and subtract. That single number, the colour index, tells astronomers how hot the star's surface is. For 51 Pegasi i…
Two British-built icebreakers once carried the Trans-Siberian across Lake BaikalBefore tracks wrapped around Lake Baikal, the railway simply stopped at each shore. An icebreaking train ferry, designed by a Russian admiral, built in Newcastle, taken apart into…
Two brothers from Arran built the house that published Alice and NatureDaniel and Alexander Macmillan grew up on the Scottish island of Arran and opened a bookselling business in 1843. Within a few decades their firm had published Alice's Adventures …
Two brothers from Thessaloniki gave the Slavs their first written languageIn 862 or 863 a Moravian duke asked Byzantium for a Slavonic liturgy, and the missionaries Cyril and Methodius delivered astonishingly fast: a brand-new alphabet and translated sc…
Two brothers inherit a secret drug empire in this sharp Pakistani-American crime comedyWhen their wealthy father dies, two brothers discover his legitimate business is a front for a massive criminal enterprise. This Hulu series blends dark humor with high-stakes cri…
Two brothers invented an alphabet so Slavs could prayConstantine and Michael of Thessalonica—remembered as Cyril and Methodius—answered Great Moravia's call in 862 with a script fitted to Slavic speech. Glagolitic came first; its de…
Two brothers split an Afghan empire, one facing west and one eastFor thirty years the Ghurid realm had two rulers at once. The elder brother, Ghiyath al-Din, governed the west from Firozkoh and wrestled with Central Asian rivals, while the youn…- Two brothers, one Chevy Impala, fifteen seasons, and eventually a war against GodSupernatural began in 2005 as a road-trip monster show about Sam and Dean Winchester. By its finale in November 2020 the brothers had battled angels, Lucifer and finally God himse…
Two brothers, one woman, and a secret that tears a family apart in IstanbulKuzey Güney is a gripping Turkish drama exploring the volatile rivalry between two brothers with opposing temperaments. When a tragic crime forces the rebellious Kuzey to take the…
Two Canadian cities on the same latitude have wildly different JanuariesWinnipeg and Vancouver both sit at 49 degrees north. Winnipeg's January days peak around minus 11 Celsius, with nights near minus 21. Vancouver, bathed by mild Pacific winds, stay…
Two centuries ago, a single massive glacier filled the entirety of Glacier Bay.Today, Glacier Bay is a 65-mile-long fjord, but it was once dominated by the Grand Pacific Glacier. As this colossal ice sheet retreated, it fractured into 20 separate glaciers. E…
Two championships, one winner: the night the Royal Rumble changed foreverThe 2003 Royal Rumble marked a historic shift for WWE. Following the brand split, the winner no longer faced just one champion. Instead, the victor could choose to challenge for e…
Two check digits in every IBAN catch almost any typo before money movesSwap two digits in an old-style bank transfer and the payment might wander between banks for days, racking up fees. The IBAN fixes that with two check digits near the front, which…
Two Chicago teenagers discover they are actually the co-kings of a mysterious Pacific island.Brady and Boomer lived ordinary lives in Chicago until a royal advisor arrived at their high school. They were suddenly thrust into the role of rulers over Kinkow, a bizarre islan…
Two cities fused on the seasonal Ngadda RiverMaiduguri is capital and largest city of Nigeria’s Borno State, sitting on the seasonal Ngadda River before it vanishes into Firki swamps near Lake Chad. Yerwa, founded in 1907 by…
Two clocks, one heartbeat: the art of synchronized lossFélix González-Torres created a masterpiece using nothing but two identical wall clocks. By hanging them side-by-side, he transformed mundane objects into a profound meditation on…
Two Clocks: Bulletin Boards and Live ChatBulletin boards and live chat gave online community two different rhythms: messages posted for all to read, and conversation that unfolds in real time.
Two cloudy days in Paris led Henri Becquerel to radioactivityHenri Becquerel expected sunlight to make uranium salts give off X-ray-like rays. When overcast skies in late February 1896 halted his tests, he left the wrapped plates in a drawe…
Two clutches, one gearbox: how a dual-clutch transmission shifts without a pauseA dual-clutch gearbox splits its gears into two teams. One clutch looks after the odd gears, the other the even ones, so while you accelerate in third, fourth is already waiting. …
Two Coils That Never Touch: How Transformers WorkHow two unconnected coils on an iron core, fed with alternating current, step grid voltage up for long-distance transmission and down again for homes and factories, and how Farada…
Two countries can both gain from trade even if one is better at everything.It sounds wrong: if Portugal makes both wine and cloth more efficiently than England, why trade? David Ricardo showed in 1817 that what matters is not who is best, but who gives u…- Two critical spacewalks are coming to the International Space Station this JanuaryNASA is preparing for a high-stakes series of extravehicular activities to upgrade the orbital laboratory's power and navigation. From installing massive new solar arrays to repla…
Two critically endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtles return to their natural ocean habitat.Witness the culmination of intensive rehabilitation efforts as the South Carolina Aquarium Sea Turtle Care Center releases two Kemp's Ridley turtles back into the wild. This event…
Two crowns drew a line and claimed half the planetOn 7 June 1494 at Tordesillas, Portugal and Castile split non-European lands along a meridian about 370 leagues west of Cape Verde. The pope later blessed the bargain; Indigenous …
Two cyborgs, one explosion, and the divergent paths of human moralityWhen an extraterrestrial explosion strikes a public park, two people are reborn as powerful machines. One uses his mechanical strength to heal the sick and fight crime, while the …
Two decades later, Miranda Priestly returns to navigate a volatile, digital-first media landscape.The Devil Wears Prada 2 reunites Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway for a high-stakes corporate drama. Set twenty years after the original, the film follows Andy Sachs as she attempts…