Meteorite That Recently Fell in Somalia Turns Out to Contain Two Minerals Never Before Seen on Earth
Two substances previously not found on Earth have been identified and named. A slice of the El Ali meteorite that fell in Somalia in 2020. Image credit:…
Why You Shouldn’t Dump Your Pets: This Record-Breaking Giant Goldfish Just Caught Is As Heavy As A 10-Year-Old Child
A record-breaking goldfish has been caught in Champagne, France, where an angler dragged a 30-kilogram (67-pound) specimen on shore. This puny specimen was half the weight of…
Stephen Hawking’s Final Research Predicts The End Of The Universe And Existence Parallel Universes
Two weeks before his death, famed scientist Stephen Hawking published a research article predicting parallel universes and along with the end of our own. Hawking and co-author…
World’s Oldest Known Forest Found – It Dates Back 386 Million Years
In the Catskill Mountains of southeastern New York State, scientists have discovered a set of 386-million-year-old fossilized root systems – the world’s oldest known forest. Fossilized roots…
These Two Growing Massive Sinkholes in Texas Are Yearning to Unite, With Catastrophic Results
Two breathtaking giant sinkholes in Texas have long been objects of fear and fascination. Aerial view of Wink Sink 1. Image credit: Bureau of Economic Geology, The University…
A mesmerizing piece of Rainbow fluorite
Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride. Pure fluorite is colourless and transparent, both in visible and ultraviolet light, but it shows as…
Video: Spacecraft Lands on Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away
Watch the moment a spacecraft lands on an asteroid some 300 million kilometers away. A spacecraft from Japan visited an asteroid measuring approximately one kilometer in diameter…
We are all familiar with rainbows, but have you ever witnessed a moonbow—a nighttime rainbow illuminated by the moon?
Also called lunar rainbows, moonbows differs from your average rainbow in that they are created by the shimmers of moon rays rather than the sun. A moonbow…
After losing his partner, the piglet exhibits the most emotional response.
Spot, the piglet, was just a newborn when he met his soulmate… Rescued at 8 months old from a family who bought him as a pet, but didn’t…
Moroccan river was found to contain the three-meter-long bones of the “Loch Ness monster.”
The υпυsυal discovery at Kem Kem beach – Morocco’s “moпster river” – coυld chaпge the history of paleoпtology. Althoυgh maпy prehistoric moпsters have beeп foυпd iп this…