Astronomers confirm for the first time the existence of a giant volcanic cave on Venus
For the first time, scientists have strong evidence that a huge volcanic cave lies beneath the surface of Venus. By reanalyzing radar images from…..
Scientists are issuing a warning about Earth’s distant future: in about 200 to 250 million years, a new supercontinent could emerge, bringing with it brutal climate change on a planetary scale
Could the map of Earth someday collapse into a single landmass again? Scientists say that is not only possible, it is part of a…..
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Astronomers confirm for the first time the existence of a giant volcanic cave on Venus
For the first time, scientists have strong evidence that a huge volcanic cave lies beneath…..
Scientists are issuing a warning about Earth’s distant future: in about 200 to 250 million years, a new supercontinent could emerge, bringing with it brutal climate change on a planetary scale
Could the map of Earth someday collapse into a single landmass again? Scientists say that…..
A discovery in the Earth’s core casts doubt on the origin of much of the planet’s water and forces us to rethink what we knew about the formation of the oceans
Every glass of water on your table carries a mystery. For decades, scientists have argued…..
Ancient DNA reveals that hunter-gatherers in what is now Belgium and the Netherlands survived until 2500 BC, when the rest of Europe was already engaged in agriculture
For thousands of years after farming swept across Europe, pockets of hunter gatherers quietly held…..
A student has created cosmic dust in the laboratory and may have revealed how the ingredients for life on Earth came about
When you wipe dust off a shelf, it rarely feels like a clue to the…..
A group of amateur astronomers has just “heard” a signal from 25 billion kilometers away, confirming that Voyager 1 is still transmitting from the outer reaches of the Solar System
An aging spacecraft almost 25 billion kilometers from Earth has just checked in again, and…..
The more 3I/ATLAS is observed, the stranger it becomes. It now measures 2.6 km and its composition baffles even the experts
High above our everyday worries about traffic and the electric bill, a frozen visitor from…..
Scientists discover the protein that “deactivates” cartilage regeneration and manage to reverse wear and tear in aging joints
For many people, aching knees or stiff hips are just part of getting older. The…..
China has set itself the goal of “dominating” the Solar System by the year 2100, and what is most surprising is that it will begin as early as 2026-2030 with mining operations near Earth
What if the next big mining rush does not happen in the Amazon or the…..
Scientists detected a “sudden burst” of vapor on Mars, and what is disturbing is that it occurred when the water was supposed to be “safe” underground
New research led by scientists at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA-CSIC) and the…..
Mobility
What seemed like a rock-solid 100,000-mile warranty turned into an exhausting battle for a Pennsylvania couple because Kia refused to repair the engine at 80,000 miles for a bureaucratic reason that many owners would never imagine
When a Pennsylvania couple’s 2019 Kia Optima lost its engine at 80,000 miles, they thought the repair…..
Airbus has finally revealed the identity of the “mystery customer” who ordered eight A350-1000s, and the name comes as a surprise, as it changes the commercial landscape of long-haul flights and opens the door to a new battle for the most profitable routes
An order that once sat in the books of Airbus under the name of an unnamed customer…..
Energy
Economy
Russia intercepts a 2.8-ton fragment of the Aletai meteorite, valued at $4.2 million, which was being smuggled out of the country disguised as a simple garden ornament
Customs officers in Russia say they stopped a 2.8 ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite…..
Another theme park goes bankrupt and closes its doors “forever”: what has happened in recent weeks is more serious than it seems
Is Brean Theme Park really gone for good? Not exactly. The Somerset attraction entered liquidation…..
The battle for Panama’s ports is entering a new phase, and China has issued a stern warning
Most people will read this as another chapter in the power struggle around the Panama…..
The IRS may owe refunds to millions of people for fees charged between 2020 and 2023
Could an old IRS notice from the pandemic still be worth money? A November 25,…..
Australia has just discovered the largest iron deposit ever recorded, weighing 5.7 billion tons, and the most impressive thing is not its size, but its age
This is not a story about a brand-new mountain of iron suddenly appearing in Australia……
You turn 65, retire, and discover the real surprise: the average Social Security benefit is $1,607, and typical 401(k) savings barely reach $2,400 per month
Turning 65 still feels like a major retirement milestone. But the average Social Security check…..
A popular Alaska cruise line suddenly closes and cancels all future cruises, leaving reservations, refunds, and questions about what happened just before the season began up in the air
A cruise line known for taking travelers into quieter corners of Southeast Alaska has shut…..
Millions of people searched for it for decades during the currency changeover, and now one of the world’s most coveted mythical coins, minted in 1943, is back on the market
On March 10, one of the most famous error coins in American history is set…..
More than 1,000 metric tons of gold have been found underground in China, and the astonishing figure is its price: around $85.9 billion, in a discovery that could redefine the global map of this precious metal
Chinese geologists say they have uncovered more than 1,000 metric tons of gold beneath the…..
Millions of people could lose SNAP without realizing it, and the real change isn’t in soda or candy, but in a new rule that severely affects adults between the ages of 55 and 64
Most readers hear about soda and candy first when SNAP comes up. But for many…..
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Environment
China is transforming the Takla Makan Desert, which at 337,000 km² is almost the size of Poland, into a “lung in the sand”: the 66 billion trees planted since 1978 have increased vegetation, multiplied rainfall during the wet season by 2.5 times, and even reduced local CO2 levels from 416 to 413 ppm
Can a place so dry it is nicknamed the “Sea of Death” really help us…..
The eel, which can grow to over a meter in length and travel thousands of kilometers between rivers and the sea, is critically endangered according to the IUCN, and now the industry fears a total ban
The European eel is running out of time. Scientists describe its situation as critical, yet…..
It stands over 100 feet tall, is nearly 200 feet wide at the base, and may be older than many famous monuments; now NOAA believes that this Maug coral may hold clues to the future of reefs
NOAA researchers working in the Mariana Islands have measured a colossal stony coral inside the…..
The data has the UN on high alert: Earth has just broken a nearly imperceptible climate record, and scientists believe this “heat debt” could eventually trigger heat waves, storms, and coastal events over the coming centuries
Earth is holding on to more heat than it releases, and new climate reporting suggests…..
They are called “donuts” and look like fairy circles underwater, but science is baffled because no one yet knows what mechanism draws these perfect giant rings on the seabed off the coast of Scotland
Hundreds of giant ring shapes have appeared on the seafloor off the coast of Scotland,…..
A team of scientists has drilled a massive hole in West Antarctica and extracted 228 meters of rock—the deepest sample of its kind ever obtained
What can a long tube of mud and rock from the middle of Antarctica tell…..
Fukushima surprises us once again, 15 years after the accident, with a strange hybrid of escaped pigs and wild boars, right in the middle of the exclusion zone
What happens when farm animals escape into a place people can no longer live? A…..
What looked like a rock with a few legs and vertebrae ended up becoming a scientific sensation: that’s how Doolysaurus, South Korea’s new dinosaur, came to light
A new dinosaur species has been identified from South Korea after high-resolution X-ray micro-CT scans…..
