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The Moon’s Far Side Preserved Something Earth Lost Billions of Years Ago, and Scientists Finally Have the Rocks
10+ hour, 57+ min ago (433+ words) Earth erased much of the evidence from its violent early years, but the Moon did not. Rocks recovered from a previously inaccessible region are now revealing a record scientists have waited decades to examine. Rocks collected from the Moon’s far…...
Astronomers Caught a Star Exploding 500 Million Light-Years Away Almost the Moment It Began
11+ hour, 27+ min ago (486+ words) A telescope caught a star’s first X-ray flash, and less than an hour later astronomers were watching it explode 500 million light-years away. Astronomers caught a massive star exploding 500 million light-years away almost from the moment the event began. A brief…...
Two Amateur Fossil Hunters Found Nearly 400 Fossils in France, Revealing What Lived Near the South Pole 470 Million Years Ago
11+ hour, 57+ min ago (480+ words) Rocks in southern France have yielded an extraordinary fossil treasure, preserving evidence that usually disappears long before fossilization can occur. The discovery is now giving researchers an unusually intimate look at creatures from a nearly unimaginable past. Nearly 400 fossils dating…...
A 2,400-Year-Old Necropolis in Sicily Just Gave Up a Gold Coin Struck by Syracuse in the Final Years Before an Entire City Was Destroyed
7+ hour, 57+ min ago (511+ words) Deep in a coastal necropolis in Sicily, archaeologists uncovered something they weren't expecting: an extraordinarily rare gold coin, untouched for over two thousand years. Archaeologists have discovered a rare Syracusan gold coin dating back to the fifth century BC during…...
A U.S. B-52 Dropped Four Nuclear Bombs on Spain. The Men Sent to Clean It Up Faced a Different Battle
12+ hour, 57+ min ago (651+ words) A mid-air collision scattered four thermonuclear weapons over southern Spain, triggering a plutonium cleanup and an 80-day hunt at sea. A US Air Force B-52 (carrying four thermonuclear weapons) broke up in mid-air over Southern Spain on January 17th, 1966 due to a…...
Preserved in Stone for 150 Million Years, This Rare Footprint Trail Reveals Something Strange About the Way a Dinosaur Walked
13+ hour, 27+ min ago (351+ words) More than 130 footprints frozen in stone for 150 million years are giving scientists a front-row seat to a dinosaur’s ancient journey. Once reconstructed, the trail revealed how a 30-ton giant turned, walked, and moved in ways scientists never expected. Instead of…...
Navy Researchers Uncovered a Remarkably Preserved 500-Year-Old Shipwreck 2,567 Metres Beneath the Mediterranean
13+ hour, 57+ min ago (514+ words) A 16th-century wreck found 2,567 metres below the Mediterranean stunned archaeologists with cargo that appears almost frozen in time. In southern France, off the coast of Ramatuelle in eastern France, French authorities have confirmed that they’ve located a 16th-century merchant ship…...
Before World War II Fame, the U.S. Army Dropped 40 Bombs on Lava to Divert a Hawaiian Volcano
9+ hour, 54+ min ago (716+ words) George S. Patton oversaw a bizarre attempt to bomb lava away from Hilo? and nearly a century later, experts still dispute whether it worked. In December of 1935, the U.S. Army Air Corps bombed an actively erupting volcano with planes flying over the…...
Robot Submarine Found Bizarre Structures Beneath Antarctic Ice Before Suddenly Disappearing Without a Trace
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (696+ words) A robot submarine found bizarre terraces, teardrop pits and hidden fractures beneath Antarctic ice, then vanished without a trace on its next mission. Under hundreds of meters of floating Antarctic ice, a bright orange robot was traveling where ships, satellites,…...
Chinese Orbiter Smashes Starlink With a Tiny 2-Watt Laser Fired From 36,000 KM Above Earth
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (629+ words) A 2-watt laser pulled off a satellite downlink from 36,000 km up, using a new signal trick that pushed performance far beyond earlier results. A laser beam sent from geostationary orbit has to travel roughly 36,000 km before it reaches Earth. Yet…...