When thinking of lightning, most people would come up with images of white, thin strips of light snaking through the sky. However, this is only one type of lightning. There are many more fascinating variations of lightning in nature. In July, a man took a picture of the rare jellyfish sprite, which is basically red ...
Since its discovery in 2017, an air of mystery has surrounded the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system, an elongated, cigar-shaped body named ‘Oumuamua (Hawaiian for “a messenger from afar arriving first”). A new scenario based on computer simulations accounts for all of the observed characteristics of the first known interstellar object ...
Even though science has discovered more in the past century than all of human history prior to it, there are still mysteries that have left many scientists completely clueless. 6 bizarre mysteries and unexplained phenomena 1. The Taos hum In Taos, New Mexico, visitors and residents alike have complained for several years about hearing a faint ...
Moons ejected from orbits around gas giant exoplanets could explain several astronomical mysteries, an international team of astronomers suggests. Researchers led by Mario Sucerquia, from the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, and Jaime Alvarado-Montes from Australia’s Macquarie University, modeled the likely behavior of giant exomoons predicted to form around massive planets — and discovered that they ...
Two fossils, one found more than a century ago and another collected 70 years later, were the clues that enabled a Masters student to identify a new species of prehistoric crocodile. The new species of crocodile has been described from opalized fossils found at Lightning Ridge in NSW, Australia, from a fossil dug up more than ...
When an archaeological team excavated ancient tombs of the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period (771 to 476 B.C.), they discovered a long sword covered with mud. When the team gently wiped off the mud, they found that it was engraved with the Chinese words “King Yue Goujian’s personal sword.” This major archaeological discovery caught the ...
Excavations at two quarries in Wales, known to be the source of the Stonehenge bluestones, provide new evidence of megalith quarrying 5,000 years ago, according to a new UCL-led study. Geologists have long known that 42 of Stonehenge’s smaller stones, known as “bluestones,” came from the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire, West Wales. Now, a new ...
Archaeologists found the “vampire burial” remains of a 10-year-old child with a stone inserted into his or her mouth at a 5th-century Italian cemetery. The discovery of a 10-year-old’s body at an ancient Roman site in Italy suggests measures were taken to prevent the child, possibly infected with malaria, from rising from the dead and ...
For thousands of years, people have been puzzling over the milky strip that extends across the entire firmament. In the modern era, Galileo Galilei discovered that this Milky Way consists of countless stars. However, it was not until the 20th century that astronomers succeeded in deciphering its form and its true nature. “My third observation ...
Astronomers have discovered several bizarre objects at the Galactic Center near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole that are concealing their true identity behind a smokescreen of dust; they look like gas clouds, but behave like stars. At the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Denver, a team of researchers, led by UCLA Postdoctoral Scholar Anna ...
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