Tag: World

A mini-moon that has been orbiting Earth for the past two months is set to peel away from our planet's orbit today. The bus-size asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, is currently 2 million miles...

Preventing Future Pandemics: Confronting the Dangers of Silent SpreadThe way we typically classify respiratory illnesses is based on their symptoms. Public health messaging often focuses on these symptoms, advising symptomatic individuals to stay home...

The Indian Ocean geoid low, located in the Laccadive Sea southwest of India, is a fascinating phenomenon that has puzzled scientists for decades. This massive gravity hole, where sea levels are significantly lower than...

UFOs once again made an appearance in Washington, DC, as the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth" at the Rayburn House...

An Apatosaurus skeleton, named "Vulcan," was recently auctioned off in France for over $6 million, making it the largest dinosaur fossil ever sold at auction. The skeleton, which is around 70 feet long and...

A sculpture of "Lucy", a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis hominin, along with a baby and other group members on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2007.About 3.2 million years ago, our...

Fifty years ago, a fossil skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis was discovered by anthropologists and was affectionately named "Lucy." Since then, researchers have been able to learn a great deal about Lucy and her...

Global climate talks are grappling with a significant challenge: the burning of oil, gas, and coal is a major contributor to climate change, resulting in devastating floods and more severe hurricanes. Despite this, the...

In December of 1974, an interesting discovery was made in the realm of space science. Researchers found ethyl alcohol, a drinkable form of alcohol, in interstellar space. This discovery raised questions about the existence...

Gábor Domokos, a mathematician, posed a simple question about the geometry of tilings, wondering how few corners a shape can have and still tile a surface without gaps or overlaps. This question led him...