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Refresh Camera lost in lava fountainGood morning, science fans! Patrick here to launch another week of our science news blog coverage.Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted with spectacular, giant…
QUICK FACTSName: Ash PendantWhat it is: A silver pendant with a female figureWhere it is from: Aska hamlet, in southern SwedenWhen it was made: Circa 800…
Homo floresiensis — a small ancient human species nicknamed the “hobbit” — may have gone extinct around 50,000 years ago because declining rainfall levels reduced the…
More than 400 years ago, the English colonist and explorer John Smith wrote in his journal that there were Indigenous villages along a major river in…
Mars was once home to wet, humid areas that received heavy rainfall, similar to tropical regions on Earth, a new study of unusually bleached rocks suggests.Researchers…
A unique “sacrificial complex” discovered between two burial mounds in Russia has revealed new information about the funerary rituals of nomadic people in the south Ural…
Quick factsWhat it is: Emission nebula NGC 6820 and open star cluster NGC 6823Where it is: 6,000 light-years away in the constellation VulpeculaWhen it was shared:…
Live concerts, fireworks and roaring stadium crowds can reach dangerously high volumes — loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss. But what was the loudest sound…
The celebrity comet 3I/ATLAS is showing itself out of our solar system for good — but not before the cosmic paparazzi at Earth’s space agencies snap…
Archaeologists digging at a Mesoamerican site in Mexico have discovered an unusual, cube-shaped human skull. It is the first evidence that people in this area practiced…
