Diagnostic dilemma: Woman develops rare parasitic lung infection after eating raw frog
Patient: 32-year-old female living in Shanghai Symptoms: A woman presented to the hospital with a persistent cough that occasionally produced bloody sputum, and coughed 2 to 3 times a day. She said the cough started four months before she visited the hospital. Then, about a month before the cough started, she developed a fever that […]
James Webb Telescope discovers strange ‘superpuff’ planet chasing its own atmosphere through space
A “super-inflated” exoplanet is leaking massive amounts of helium into space and may be losing much of its atmosphere, new observations show. A large plume of helium gas has been discovered evaporating from a giant planet known as WASP-107b, according to a study based on observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The results, […]
Anacondas became gigantic 12 million years ago. It worked very well and the size has not changed since then.
Anacondas have been huge for millions of years, a new study has found. The average body size of giant snakes has remained constant since they first appeared in the fossil record some 12.4 million years ago during the Miocene (16 million to 11.6 million years ago), according to a new study published Monday in the […]
New physics equations explain universal laws of how things break, from glass to pasta
A fallen vase, a crushed sugar cube, and exploding bubbles all have something in common. A new mathematical equation reveals that they break down in a similar way. French scientists recently discovered a mathematical formula that describes the size distribution of the pieces that form when something is crushed. According to a new study published […]
A woman wearing an upside-down crown is buried in an elaborate 2,700-year-old tomb in Greece
Greek archaeologists have discovered the tomb of an exiled aristocratic woman and call her the “Lady with the Upside Down Crown.” A burial from the 7th century BC is notable for an elaborate bronze crown placed upside down on the woman’s head. This may have meant the final end of her power. The Lady’s tomb […]
‘I don’t know of any similar cases’: 4,000-year-old burial in little-known African kingdom baffles archaeologists
An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funerary ritual practiced in a little-known African kingdom some 4,000 years ago, a new study has found. In the grave, archaeologists found ceramic vessels containing charred plant and wood remains, animal bones and insect fragments, all of which the team believes were […]
2025’s ‘Cold Supermoon’: Why this year’s last full moon will also be the tallest
Skywatchers will be treated to a spectacular sight this week as the Cold Supermoon, the second largest full moon of 2025, rises in the east at dusk, appearing higher in the night sky than any other full moon this year. The official full moon will be Thursday (December 4th) at 6:14pm EST, when the moon […]
Three “black mesas”, remnants of the Paleozoic era, create unusual sand dunes in the Sahara Desert — Earth seen from space
simple facts Where is it? Gerou Island, Mauritania [16.930575400, -11.759622605] What is in the photo? Three black mesas surrounded by rare sand dunes in the Sahara Desert Who took the photo? An unknown astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) When was it taken? May 3, 2023 This interesting astronaut photo shows three ancient “black […]
History of Science: Computer Scientists Reveal ‘Moore’s Law’ That Guided Chip Design for Half a Century — December 2, 1964
Milestone: Introducing Moore’s Law Date: December 2, 1964 Location: San Francisco Bay Area People: Gordon Moore In a modest address to a local professional association in 1964, computer scientist and chemist Gordon Moore made a prediction that would define the world of technology for more than 50 years. In an Electrochemical Society presentation titled “Evolving […]
An extrasolar planet once orbited next to Earth – and that may be why we have a moon
The catastrophic collision that formed the moon and was one of the most significant events in Earth’s early history may have been caused not by a distant invader, but by a brother world growing up right next door, a new study reveals. About 4.5 billion years ago, a world the size of Mars collided with […]