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QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Laguna Colorada, Altiplano, Bolivia [-22.19489413, -67.77420764]What’s in the photo? Rust-colored water appears to bleed across a salt bedWho took the photo? An…
NASA has confirmed that a bright fireball meteor exploded in the sky over New England on Saturday (May 30), releasing the equivalent energy of about 230…
As astronauts prepare for long-duration missions to the moon and Mars, sustaining human life far from Earth will depend on solving a gauntlet of technological challenges.…
The first-ever whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark has revealed genetic clues to how the animals avoid cancer and live for hundreds of years. The work…
Heading a soccer ball just once is enough to temporarily release proteins into the blood that are associated with damage to brain cells, a new study…
Around 5.4 million years ago, two rivers flowed across present-day Turkey and Syria and into the Mediterranean Sea — and eventually, they would merge to form…
(Image credit: © Forum Gesseler Goldhort)QUICK FACTSName: Gessel gold hoardWhat it is: 117 gold objectsWhere it is from: Syke, northern GermanyWhen it was made: Circa 1300…
There’s an army of tiny workers buzzing around our fields, helping our food grow. But over the past few decades, populations of bees and other insect…
The 4,000-year-old skull of a Bronze Age child buried in what’s now Uzbekistan bears scars from a cranial surgery known as trepanation. It is the oldest…
One of the greatest achievements of the James Webb Space Telescope is how it has allowed scientists to push the boundaries of astronomy by observing galaxies…
