Dying SpaceX rocket creates glowing, galaxy-like spiral in the middle of the Northern Lights
A massive swirl of bright white light seemingly appeared from out of nowhere in the night sky above the Arctic last week, briefly upstaging a […]
Category: Science
Hiroshima fallout may offer a glimpse of the early solar system
Studying the conditions in the cloud of gas and dust that birthed our sun and planets is quite difficult. The few bits of information we […]
35 years after first proposing the World Wide Web, what does its creator Tim Berners-Lee have in mind next?
When computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee sent a memo detailing his idea of a “distributed hypertext system” on March 12, 1989, it was largely ignored by […]
COVID pandemic knocked 1.6 years off global life expectancy, study finds
Global life expectancy — the average number of years a person can expect to live from their time of birth — dropped by 1.6 years […]
300 people possibly exposed to measles at California hospital
Around 300 people may have been exposed to measles at a hospital in California after an infected child was seen by doctors there last week, […]
Technicolor ‘living magic carpet’ deep-sea worm discovered near methane seep off Costa Rica
Scientists have discovered a new species of rosy-colored deep-sea worm 30 miles (50 kilometers) off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The worm, named Pectinereis […]
Parasitic worms found in man’s brain after he likely ate undercooked bacon
Doctors in the U.S. got a nasty surprise when they discovered that a man visiting a clinic for migraines had parasitic worms growing in his […]
US government wanted to reverse-engineer alien ships — but never found any, Pentagon UFO report reveals
The U.S. government is not hiding aliens or their spaceships — although it did once propose a program to reverse-engineer any hypothetical alien technology it […]
Seismic reading linked to ‘alien technology’ by Harvard professor likely came from a passing truck, study claims
Another study has cast doubt on a Harvard professor’s claim that he discovered tiny metallic balls made by aliens at the bottom of the Pacific […]
Why does snow squeak when you walk on it?
Walking in a winter wonderland can be a feast for the senses as you feel the brisk air, see a magnificently white landscape and hear […]
