The National Geodetic Survey has spent years building a replacement for the reference system that fixes every published position in the country. New geodetic-control submissions into the old system ...
Two researchers at the European Space Agency have run an AI tool across nearly 100 million cropped images from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and come back with a shortlist of unusual objects, ...
Two and a bit tonnes of snapped rock, stacked into neat circles, in a chamber that has never once seen daylight. Nobody has worked out why. Bruniquel Cave sits above the Aveyron gorges in the ...
Don Gurnett, the principal investigator for the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, spent decades turning the electromagnetic noise of the outer planets into ...
A registered beefalo, the bison-cattle breed at the centre of the study. Credit: Karl Young, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A bull called Joe’s Pride changed hands in 1975 for $2.5 million. His ...
The pitch drop experiment with custodian John Mainstone, University of Queensland. Photo: John Mainstone / University of Queensland, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In 1927, a physics professor ...
Giant sunspot on the solar disk imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on 24 October 2014 — thematic full-disk sunspot imagery. Credit: NASA/SDO, public domain. That number matters because of ...
Opportunity self-portraits from January 2014, left, and March 2014 show how wind removed much of the dust from the rover’s solar panels. These images postdate the first dust-devil photograph and do ...
Cyanobacteria bloom in a shallow Michigan lake during the fall of 2024. Photo by Leon Katona. Public domain (USGS). In the summer of 2024, a small lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was ...
On the night of August 1, 1969, a green pulse of light left a telescope at the Lick Observatory in California, travelled a quarter of a million miles to the Sea of Tranquillity, struck a ...
Twice a week the most famous fountain in Rome is switched off, drained and vacuumed like a lounge room carpet. Workers climb down into the emptied basin with long-handled brushes, sweep the coins into ...
A banana-and-berry smoothie is often described as an easy way to combine fruits. A small controlled crossover study found a narrower biochemical effect than claims that this mixture neutralises the ...
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