Researchers working at China's tokamak facility have announced that the team was able to hold 120-million-degree Celsius plasma for 1,056 seconds. In their announcement to the press, they noted that their achievement was a new record for holding superheated...
Giants, according to tradition, were creatures so massive that they caused the Earth to quake when they walked.
In the 1940s, archaeologists in Argedava, Romania, oversaw an excavation in search of precious artifacts belonging to Dacian commander Burebista. Ionita Florea,...
We can identify five distinct messages that they intend to transmit based on hundreds of publications dealing with alien encounters.
We can identify five distinct messages that they intend to transmit based on hundreds of publications dealing with alien encounters.
The...
That shouldn't be happening.
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We have lots of recent evidence to suggest Earth is weird—really weird. Our planet, for example, mysteriously pulsates every 26 seconds, has a secret hidden layer, is rapidly getting colder (but only on one side), and just might...
Compensating for the lost time may prove challenging for scientists.
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Ever feel like there’s just not enough time in the day? Turns out, you might be onto something. Earth is rotating faster than it has in the last...
A new test of cephalopod smarts has reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence.
Cuttlefish have been put to a new version of the marshmallow test, and the results appear to demonstrate that there's...
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it's not red anymore.
This sand dune, known as Dingo Gap, was crossed by Mars Curiosity in 2014. This image has...
If you didn’t already remember, NASA made a curious observation when testing their new telescopes.
They attempted to photograph the center of our galaxy, but after the image was publicly published, it was discovered that the galaxy’s center is occupied...
Recently a new discovery was made in the Proxima Centauri System which comes in the form of a Second Earth. According to experts, this planet is sure to have inhabitants that evolved the same way we did millions of...
More than 10,000 people spent twenty years developing this Hubble successor.
For the past 31 years the Hubble Space Telescope has been an invaluably versatile observation platform for astronomers but it’s begun showing its age of late. Last serviced in...
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