Giant “chessboard” surrounds the Idaho River with strange astronaut photos – Earth from space
Simple facts Where is it? White Tail Butte, Priest River, Idaho [48.411815594, -116.84501960] What do you see in the photo? Grid-based land management system divides parts of the forest into squares Who took the photo? Nameless astronaut on the International Space Station When did you take it? January 4, 2017 This fascinating photo of the […]
Roman helmets 200 years ago from the end of the war discovered in the Mediterranean
A treasure trove of metal artifacts, including bronze-Roman military helmets in “extraordinary preservation,” were recovered from the Mediterranean bottom, researchers say. The helmet may have been lost in the Battle of the Egadi Islands in the first Ponic Wars of 241 BC (also known as the Aegas Islands). In August 2024, a team of association […]
“Blood Moon” Gallery: Amazing Snap from Last Night’s All-Lunar Eclipse
The lunar solar eclipse can give the moon a red tint. That’s why it’s called the “Blood Moon.” Here, it is photographed in double exposure over Chinese jiu-jitsu. (Image credit: Photo by Shen Junfeng/VCG via Getty Images) Photographers around the world turned their cameras into the sky last night for a total lunar eclipse of […]
Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists?
Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists? In other words, what is the science of why there is something rather than nothing? The answer relates to the opposite. Scientists have discovered that the universe exists because it started with a slight imbalance between matter and antimatter. Particles of matter – that is, all […]
RFK Jr. wants to overhaul the country’s “vaccine coat.” This is what’s getting in his way.
For almost 40 years, those suspected of being harmed by a vaccine could rely on a lesser-known system called the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been a vaccine court critic and has called it “biased” against people who are slowly and unfair. He says he […]
Meet a Chinese supercar that just beats EV Speed Records
Chinese electric car brand BYD has built the world’s fastest fully electric supercar. He destroyed previous records by hitting a top speed of 293.54 mph (472.41 km/h). The record was set by BYD’s Yangwang U9 truck version in North Germany on August 8th in the ATP car test. With a power-to-weight ratio of 2,960 horsepower […]
Scientific objectivity is myth. Here’s the reason
Even if you don’t remember many facts from high school biology, you may still remember the cells, eggs and sperm needed to make a baby. Maybe you can imagine a swarm of sperm cells fighting each other in a race that would become the first person to penetrate the egg. For decades, scientific literature has […]
A 200-year-old gold coin depicting the ancient Egyptian queen discovered in Jerusalem
Archaeologists in Jerusalem discovered a rare miniature gold coin depicting the Egyptian queen Berenice II, and depicted the reign of her husband, the third ruler of Egypt’s Ptolemy kingdom. Ptolemies were the royal family of Macedonia, founded during the Egyptian Hellenistic Period (around 323-30 BC) by Ptolemy Istar, one of the generals of Alexander the […]
James Webb Telescope finds a distorted “butterfly star” that strips off the space photo of the week.
Simple facts What it is: Discs that form planets around stars Where is it: 525 light years away, in the constellation Taurus When shared: August 29, 2025 This magnificent new image from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows a star cocoing inside a giant disc of gas and dust. It is a protoplanetary disc, a […]
Do humans and chimpanzees really share nearly 99% of their DNA?
Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are the closest living relatives of humans. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimpanzees share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does “similar DNA” mean? The truth is that 98.8% similarity between chimpanzee (pantrogloycetes) and human (homo sapiens) DNA overlooks important differences in […]