Something we’ve never seen before is coming out of a solar system in our galaxy, astronomers say
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Scientists attached a camera to the biggest fish on Earth. Here’s what they found
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We assumed the Moon was a geologically dead world, but Smithsonian scientists mapping its surface in early 2026 found more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges — the Moon is still shrinking, still cracking, and still shaking
The Moon does stillness unusually well. It has no weather to soften its craters, no oceans to erase…
The largest waterfall on Earth is hidden beneath the ocean between Greenland and Iceland, where cold water plunges more than three kilometres down the seafloor at 3.5 million cubic metres per second
The surface of the Denmark Strait gives no sign of a three-kilometre drop below. Between Greenland and Iceland,…
History of Astronomy and Obscurantism Ancient and Modern
Dear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball, There are nights when I retrace the path…
Why the next computing revolution will be hybrid, human and slightly unpredictable
There is something poetic about quantum computing. For decades, it has lived in the realm of possibility, whispered…
10-foot great white shark stalks children in SoCal
An alarming video shows a battle-scarred 10-foot great white shark appear to contemplate nibbling on a couple of…
VR Distorts Body Perception, Study Reveals
A new study from the University of Toronto finds that people perceive their bodies as larger in virtual…
Security Council LIVE: Can critical minerals fuel peace and prosperity instead of conflict?
The Security Council met Wednesday in New York to debate critical minerals — the lithium, cobalt and copper…
The Secret Behind China’s Unique Spy Satellite Is a Rare Metal It Controls
Nearly three years ago, China launched a radar satellite capable of monitoring nearly a third of Earth’s surface…
Quantum Gravity May Be Far Less Quantum Than Physicists Expected
Physicists have long assumed that uniting quantum mechanics with gravity would require spacetime itself to behave quantum mechanically.…
Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans
You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can…