The Grand Canyon Was Once A Mountain Range Formed By Earth’s Plates Crumpling
The actual canyon is very young (geologically speaking).
Admire Azerbaijan’s Beautiful ”Candy Cane Mountains” – Just Don’t Lick Them
They don’t smell of peppermint either.
The First Comet We Ever Saw Slam Into Jupiter May Have Left It With A New Ring
Cometary collisions might not just be tales of destruction, but also creation.
How Many Times Can A Lizard Can Regrow Its Tail?
And why some lizards end up with several tails at once.
Google Reveals What People Were Searching For In 2024, And It’s Fairly Worrying
2024, like most of its recent predecessors, has been a busy one.
Amateur Astronomers Detect Signal Coming From Voyager 1 Spacecraft, 24.9 Billion Kilometers Away
The signal took 23 hours to reach Earth.
Boris The Tiger Walked 200 Kilometers Across Russia To Reunite With An Old Flame
Boris and Svetlaya welcomed a litter of cubs just months after reuniting in the wild.
Can We Live Forever? How Digitizing The Connectome Could Preserve Us Indefinitely
“We would need the stars of 10,000 galaxies to equal the number of synapses that make up the connectome.”
Dixon Entrance: The Ongoing US Border Dispute You’ve Never Heard Of
It once resulted in a US vessel getting taken hostage for three days.
The Antarctic Ice Sheet Has An Irregular ”Heartbeat”, Suggesting It Is Melting Rapidly
New research has looked at how the ice sheet has grown and shrunk over its long history, and it has warned that things don’t look good if climate change continues…