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On September 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs report ...
The current definition of a “planet” is rooted in folklore and astrology and must be dropped due to not meeting the needs of m ...
The threat of an alien invasion is generally thought of in terms of little green men, laser blasters, and towering motherships ...
Bits of heavenly debris rain down continuously into Earth’s atmosphere, with the vast majority being so tiny they burn up. Fra ...
With world leaders gathered for the COP26 summit in Glasgow, there is much talk of methane emissions and belching cows. The Gl ...
The partial skull of a Homo Naledi child, nicknamed 'Letti', was discovered at the Rising Star cave, the site of other major disco
The future of Eskom’s Koeberg facility remains uncertain, as the nuclear plant continues to battle with extended outages and o ...
Ancient hunters and farmers living in the foothills and valleys of western Iran’s verdant highlands may have been among the fi ...
There are two supermoons in 2021—and the next one is in April 26. What is a supermoon? We agree that it’s a catchy word and an ...
Government recently released a draft national master plan to commercialise South Africa's cannabis industry, which include bot ...
Why did early hunter-gatherers choose an unusual formation of rocks as the place where they would spend time chiselling out I' ...
Check out this amazing new video from NASA’s Perseverance rover, showing its own descent and landing on the surface of Mars la ...
Physicist Avi Loeb of Harvard believes we should take seriously the idea that ‘Oumuamua – the 1st known object to pass through ...
The stainless steel Starship prototype launched from SpaceX's Boca Chica facility near Brownsville, Texas, at 2:35 p.m. local ...
Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa’s powerful MeerKAT telescope, located in the Karoo region, a s ...
Antarctic iceberg A-68A has drifted menacingly close to a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The giant iceberg coul ...
Professor Ian Sanne, a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19, said there's a big difference between a 'stra ...
Despite the flooding, our stormwater systems had a primary flush. Henceforth, the water will keep cleaning dirt and grime, aft ...
Although the ground beneath our feet feels solid and reassuring (most of the time), nothing in this Universe lasts forever. O ...
The drug, called BO-112, is in human trials and mimics the structure of a double-stranded RNA molecule, a type of genetic mate ...
Starting October 1, it’s now illegal for businesses to supply customers with plastic straws and stirrers, or to sell plastic-s ...
A group of genes passed down from extinct human cousins is linked with a higher risk for severe COVID-19, researchers say. Whe ...
Neanderthals have long been seen as uber-masculine hunks, at least compared with their lightweight human cousins, with whom th ...
Not only was August 2020 the 2nd-warmest August on record, but the Northern Hemisphere had its warmest summer on record, and t ...
New studies show fractures on surface ice and warm seawater melting the ice from underneath. That’s a harbinger of a coming co ...
Although few details are known, and no images have been released, the Chinese did apparently launch a reusable spacecraft on S ...
Ahead of a slew of new missions to Earth’s natural satellite, researchers have detected a bizarre and unexpected anomaly on th ...
Musk launched his Starlink project last year with a lofty goal: to bring high-speed internet access to the remotest corners of ...
Last year archaeologists pinpointed the origin of many of the ancient monument’s massive stones. A new study identifies the so ...
Between March and May 2020, many people across Earth went into lockdown. During those months, seismographs recorded a drop in ...