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Something Weird Happened That We Can’t Really Explain With Existing Physics
5+ hour, 35+ min ago (221+ words) Why did this particle mysteriously disintegrate? Scientists have proposed a new kind of subatomic particle to explain another particle’s mysterious disintegration. The kaon, a special case of meson particle, is made of one quark and one antiquark. All are part…...
Archaeologists Found a 440-Year-Old Coin that Marked the Lost Site of a Doomed Colony
5+ hour, 52+ min ago (193+ words) The Spanish colony Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, located at the southern tip of Chile, lasted less than three years due to harsh conditions. “For centuries,” wrote the National Historical Museum in a translated post, “the exact location of its…...
Archaeologists Found a Floor Stone Covered in Runes—and It Might Be a 1,000-Year-Old Tombstone
8+ hour, 34+ min ago (151+ words) A grave marker’s cryptic message could reveal a lost chapel’s secrets. Fragile after removal, the stone is currently at the National Museum awaiting further analysis. Excavations at Sondum will continue until the end of August. While archaeologists will make an…...
A Student’s Hunch Uncovered a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (615+ words) George Bird knew there had to be more to the six-foot-tall standing stone. A six-foot-tall standing ceremonial stone in a Derbyshire forest had one archaeology enthusiast searching for more. Well, in 2024, 24-year-old student George Bird found plenty, with the help…...
Navy Researchers Scanned the Seafloor and Tracked a Ping. Then They Found a Staggering 500-Year-Old Shipwreck.
1+ day, 21+ min ago (373+ words) At 8,200 feet underwater, it’s the deepest wreck ever found around France’s coastline. Routine sonar investigations of the French seafloor led to the accidental discovery of a 16th-century shipwreck roughly 1.5 miles off the coast of Ramatuelle. The wreck, nestled 8,200 feet underwater,…...
There’s a Vast Network Beneath Your Feet—And It Could Be Conscious, Some Theories Claim
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (1714+ words) It’s so large that it could stretch from the sun to Pluto an unfathomable number of times. These AM fungi are essential for plants across the world, as they play a major role in their sustenance. For instance, mycorrhizal fungi…...
New Science Is Forcing Us to Rethink the Moment We Die
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (165+ words) On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and John Gilpatrick discuss what it really means to die. All life ends in death—or does it? A new Pop Mech story, “A Groundbreaking Scientific…...
A ‘Monster’ Disaster Could Hit This Fall, Research Shows. It May Rival One of the Strongest Ever Recorded.
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (1709+ words) This could affect millions. Despite their disarming nicknames, El Niño and La Niña—the two sides of the climatic coin known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO—are deadly serious. The engine at ENSO’s heart are the easterly…...
Archaeologists Found Ancient Humans on a Mediterranean Island—but They Shouldn’t Have Survived There
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (259+ words) New research reveals surprising evidence of human habitation on Malta more than one thousand years earlier than previously thought possible. Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: The mystery began back in 2019 when archaeologists uncovered evidence of shellfish meals,…...
America’s Biggest Volcanic Threat May Come Without an Eruption
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (553+ words) These fast-moving mudflows can devastate towns in a matter of minutes. After Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, experts were faced with a precarious question: How can we best prepare for when—not if—the next volcanic eruption in the Cascade…...