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Lunar Eclipse News

A partial lunar eclipse will be visible across Canada on August 27-28. It comes two weeks after a total solar eclipse was seen in parts of Europe, including Iceland, Spain, and a small portion of Portugal. This lunar eclipse is notable…

Extinction of Tasmanian Tiger

Researchers from Flinders University and the University of Melbourne have analyzed the skull structure of the thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger. They found that its unique combination of a large skull, long upper jaw, and wide…

Bronze Age Village Uncovered

More than 3,000 years ago, on land now being developed into a modern Scottish suburb, 12 Bronze Age roundhouses were discovered by archaeologists from GUARD Archaeology during excavations in 2018-19. The houses, which dated back to between…

Unknown Objects in Solar System

Scientists predict that thousands of interstellar objects from alien star systems are hiding in the outer reaches of our solar system. Over the past decade, three interstellar objects have been spotted passing through our solar system, and…

Sea Star Killer Discovered

In 2013, a mysterious disease known as sea star wasting disease began spreading along the Pacific coast from Mexico to Alaska, devastating sea star populations and wiping out almost 90% of sunflower stars, the largest sea stars in the…

Human Body Temperature Regulation

The human body takes several days to adjust to changing temperatures, as demonstrated by an experiment where a participant spent 3 days at 104°F in a special chamber to mimic a heat wave that killed 619 people in British Columbia alone…

MIT Refrigeration Breakthrough

MIT researchers in 2022 created a 4-inch device that kept food fresh without electricity, using a combination of three passive cooling methods. The device was tested on a hot roof in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was able to cool itself…

Sturgeon Moon Photography

The August full moon, also known as the Sturgeon Moon, was visible over the UK on Thursday night. The moon appeared red in color due to a partial lunar eclipse, where the Earth passed between the Sun and the Moon, casting a shadow on the…

Antarctic Particle Research Mission

In January 2013, NASA's BARREL mission sent 20 balloons drifting through the polar winds over Antarctica to track particles from space. The balloons carried instruments designed to detect faint X-rays produced when energetic particles…

Moon's Ancient Crust Revealed

Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin, part of the Apollo 15 mission, discovered a rare and significant rock called Genesis Rock, also known as 15415, on August 1, 1971. The rock was found near Spur Crater in the Hadley-Apennine region of…

Mars Geological Anomaly

Scientists at Brown University have made a significant discovery about Mars' interior using three Martian orbiters to peer into the planet's mantle. They found that the southern hemisphere of Mars is 400-750°F hotter than the northern…

Ancient Human Lineages Discovered

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have identified genetic signatures from two unknown human lineages, whose DNA has never been recovered directly from a fossil. One lineage split from modern humans around 800,000 years…