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QUICK FACTSWhere is it? The Gulf of Mexico, off the Florida Keys [24.5786632, -82.52266106]What’s in the photo? A bright plume of calcium-carbonate-rich mud that was stirred…

A college student has created a prototype polish to turn a fingernail into a touch-screen stylus, after noticing that people with long nails and calloused fingertips…

Artemis II is the first crewed spaceflight in NASA’s Artemis Program — a long-term campaign that aims to send humans back to the moon for the…

Antarctica could heat up 1.4 times faster than the rest of the Southern Hemisphere over the coming decades, which would lock in extreme sea-level rise and…

An uncrewed Russian rocket carrying vital supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) experienced a significant “glitch” after launch, meaning the cargo vehicle will no longer…

Headbutting Sperm Whales – YouTube Watch On Scientists have captured first-of-its-kind footage of a sperm whale violently headbutting another sperm whale out of the blue.Researchers filmed…

Today’s top story The Ala Wai Golf Course is seen inundated with water from Hawaii’s worst flooding in decades. (Image credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via…

Viruses found in the intestines — collectively called the gut virome — activate the immune system to help metabolize carbohydrates, thereby reducing blood sugar spikes, a…

Urfa Man is a life-size Neolithic statue found in Turkey. (Image credit: Getty Images)QUICK FACTSName: Urfa ManWhat it is: A limestone statueWhere it is from: Şanlıurfa,…

Researchers have created an unusually twisted molecule with a never-before-seen electronic structure.The new molecular architecture, dubbed half-Mӧbius topology, “is another knob that we can turn in…