Category: General

When you’re asleep, the world remains awake. Thousands of nocturnal species are crawling,…

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic mystery. Astronomers have cataloged a frozen minor planet called 2017 OF201, and while it might not be the…

Key Takeaways on the Van Allen Belts:

• In 1958, James Van Allen discovered far fewer cosmic rays than expected using a cosmic-ray detector and suggested that a belt of strong radiation may have damaged the device. The belts were therefore named in…

Key Takeaways on the Carrington Event:

• A massive solar flare, followed by a series of coronal mass ejections, caused the Carrington Event, which happened on September 1, 1859.

• The event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused auroras visible…

Egypt unveiled three new tombs of prominent statesman in the Dra Abu al-Naga necropolis in…

An artificial island of sand dredged from Indonesia’s seafloor has accidentally revealed evidence of a long-lost sunken world, inhabited by early humans.

Scattered across the newly created island, scientists have uncovered more than 6,700…

Cats act as if they’re bringing you a present, except the gift is a recently hunted rodent, usually of the mouse variety. Cats love to track down small animals and show off their hunting prowess, whether it’s a mouse, mole, or even a bird. So…

Some pre-packaged foods, such as pasta and rice, are staples that many of us eat as part of a balanced diet. Others, such as crisps and sugary snacks, are clearly not health foods. But for some packaged and processed foods, the claims on the…

Imagine a world where two-dimensional data could be moved and manipulated in a three-dimensional setting. In the hospital room, for example, a doctor may visually see, manipulate, and experience a patient’s MRI brain scan, or a building…

Alien plants and animals cost Europe over $1.5 trillion in the last six decades, according to…