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Stunning new footage shows a bright-green “fireball” meteor exploding in the skies over an erupting volcano in the Philippines. Initial reports suggested that the falling space…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana [6.498727489, -1.4087398896]What’s in the photo? Ghana’s only natural lake, surrounded by exposed veins of goldWhich satellite took the photo?…
Researchers have developed a system that uses short videos of the eye to estimate a person’s levels of red blood cells — no needles required.The technology,…
A 600-year-old set of surgical tools found in a tomb in China has revealed the world’s first chemical evidence of a topical anesthetic. Used to numb…
The wind picks up dust from the unpaved road one afternoon in December as Jack van Honk turns into a ramshackle neighborhood in Lambert’s Bay, on…
If you have ever tried to repair something, realized that it was beyond your financial or technical means, and ended up buying a new one, you…
The shroud was made from a net of thousands of colored beads.(Image credit: Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson…
Bizarre Venus surface formations (or coronae) are likely key to understanding our twin planet’s heretofore inscrutable interior. Using NASA Magellan spacecraft data from decades past, Anna…
Jupiter’s giant moon Ganymede is the only known moon to have its own magnetic field — and it may be heating up in a process “not…
Researchers have developed a method to reduce uncertainty in artificial intelligence (AI) systems by tapping into the power of quantum computers. They say their work represents…
