The higher atmosphere is full of peculiar phenomena and an important one for communication and navigation is equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs). These are hot pockets
Earth is not a static, unchanging ball of rock. Your day-to-day perception of the ground you stand on might suggest otherwise, but our planet is
Silver has been building up in certain parts of the coastal seabed since the 19th century – and researchers believe its mounting abundance is due
Typhoon Yagi has become one of the most intense typhoons to ever hit Vietnam, and it has left behind death and devastation, not only in
Within the depths of an ancient Chehrābād salt mine in Iran, multiple miners met a grisly end thousands of years ago. Over the last few
According to a new study, adolescents who lived through the COVID-19 lockdowns experienced rapid premature brain aging due to the social restrictions, but girls were
The speed of light in a vacuum is the absolute speed limit of the universe. Nothing will go faster than 299,792 kilometers per second (186,000
With summer drawing to a close, an algal bloom in Lake Erie that began forming around June is still going strong, bursting with a glow
Orcas, or killer whales, are known to some as the velociraptors of the sea for the incredibly orchestrated attacks they carry out in the wild.
Archaeologists have found an extremely unusual Neanderthal artefact at an excavation site in Spain, which is forcing them to rethink what we know of these
A moderate geomagnetic storm is predicted to engulf Earth’s atmosphere tonight, with the northern lights likely to become visible further south than usual. According to
Cape fur seals at popular beaches across South Africa have been exhibiting uncharacteristically aggressive behavior, including biting beachgoers and other animals along a roughly 650-kilometer
A new study suggests that the Sun may have had a close encounter with another star, explaining the unusual orbits of objects in the outer
A sampling of the upper troposphere has detected a wide array of microbial species, some of them human pathogens. Many of these organisms were found
The USA is failing to learn lessons from COVID-19 as the world reconciles with a possible future bird flu pandemic, experts have warned. In a
As we search the skies with increasingly more powerful telescopes, we have discovered plenty of things that our best models of the universe have not
As anyone knows from reading a little about Albert Einstein or watching a sci-fi movie that wants to save a little on costs, it is
