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Oklahoma may soon keep teen drivers on a learner's leash until 18, following a trail of crash data decades in the making
12+ hour, 34+ min ago (774+ words) Teen drivers are involved in crashes at nearly four times the rate of drivers aged 20 and older " per mile driven. They drive less than almost any other age group, yet their share of crashes and crash deaths remains disproportionately high....
In the Arctic danger zone, researchers fled toward a "dirty iceberg" that revealed itself as an island never seen before
16+ hour, 35+ min ago (581+ words) For decades, we believed the map of our world was complete. But a research team recently discovered a landmass that had escaped human eyes since the dawn of time. Originally dismissed as a mere "dirty iceberg," this anomaly is forcing…...
3, 000 feet below the Pacific, a Japanese expedition found unknown creatures living inside "glass sponges," including translucent lobsters and glowing worms
18+ hour, 34+ min ago (634+ words) At depths that would crush a submarine, scientists have discovered an impossible sanctuary. Living skyscrapers made of pure glass. These deep-sea sponges are behaving like living towers of silica, creating shelter for a world of small creatures. A recent Japanese…...
A strange square structure was spotted beneath Mars, and scientists are only now revealing what it really was
22+ hour, 34+ min ago (602+ words) Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems via Mars Orbiter Camera, Arizona State University's Mars image explorer Is it a geological fluke, or are we looking at the blueprints of a lost civilization? Buried beneath the Martian dust lies a…...
Fossils that "fooled" paleontologists for 20 years turned out to be baby ankylosaurs " including one that had just hatched
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (477+ words) For more than two decades, dozens of unusually small armored dinosaur fossils from northeastern China defied easy explanation. At no more than 40 centimeters long " a fraction of what scientists expect from their group " they seemed to represent something extraordinary: a…...
Georgia says 68 percent of driver's license customers still show up in person " and it wants that to change
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (607+ words) Now DDS is making a direct push to close that gap. DDS data puts the split plainly: 32 percent of license issuance transactions happen online, while 68 percent still take place at a Customer Service Center. Georgia has millions of licensed drivers,…...
In cities, solar farms are creating "heat bubbles" that are quietly turning streets into ovens
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (559+ words) Solar farms are hailed as our green salvation, but they're harboring a sweltering secret. Massive glass arrays are triggering "heat bubbles'invisible domes of trapped thermal energy pulsating over populated regions. As these pockets intensify, scientists warn of a looming crisis…...
Beneath a lake in Kyrgyzstan, the "Pompeii of Asia" has been uncovered, revealing a 2, 500-year-old necropolis buried by an earthquake
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (618+ words) Credits: Russian Academy of Sciences Beneath the flawless waves of a water expanse in Asia lies a ghost metropolis that's resurfacing from the deep. This submerged city, known as the "Pompeii of Asia," holds secrets of a violent seismic catastrophe…...
These small, fast-moving objects are hiding in plain sight, and Rubin Observatory is about to uncover millions of them
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (647+ words) Credits: Image of the 3 I/ATLAS comet, one of the objects seen by the Vera Rubin Observatory. Note that this particular image was taken by another telescope: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech (If A/U. Hawaii)Image Processing: Jen…...
Ancient tectonic plates buried 2, 900 kilometers deep are still warping Earth's mantle and scientists just mapped them globally for the first time
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (443+ words) Nearly 2, 900 kilometers below the surface, just above Earth's molten core, something has been quietly reshaping the planet's deepest rock for millions of years. Now, for the first time, scientists have mapped that deformation on a global scale. To do it,…...