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Mpox spread across the world in 2022, triggering tens of thousands of cases in countries where the infection was once rarely seen. Although the disease has…
Mpox is an infectious disease caused by a poxvirus, meaning a virus in the same family as smallpox. The infection was formerly known as monkeypox.Historically, mpox…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Lake Powell, Utah [37.47537121, -110.70474226]What’s in the photo? A “sunglint” transforming a reservoir into a giant silver riverWho took the photo? An…
On Sept. 20, the Antarctic ozone hole peaked at 10.6 million square miles (27.4 million square kilometers), the second-largest size ever observed for this time of…
You may have watched the moon block out the sun during a solar eclipse, but have you ever seen it do that to a planet? Early…
The ancient Egyptians practiced human sacrifice around 5,000 years ago, a period shortly after the country was first unified, a new study finds. In the new…
Archaeologists have discovered a temple dedicated to the Roman war god Mars in the wooded foothills of the Taunus mountains in Germany. The temple was part…
This burial urn depicts a person, accompanied by skulls, as they are received into the Maya underworld.QUICK FACTSName: Urn with jaguars and skullsWhat it is: A…
Researchers have developed a new type of interconnected architecture for quantum computing chips, and it could pave the way for machines capable of large-scale processing, including…
Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the particles these collisions sprayed out. If confirmed, that…
