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Scientists Discover White-Hot Planet Covered in Lava
The oceans are lava, and it rains rocks. Planets like the Earth all started as big lumps of celestial stardust...
The oceans are lava, and it rains rocks. Planets like the Earth all started as big lumps of celestial stardust...
A whole city uncovered, no digging necessary. The most physically and financially intensive part of archaeology is digging. When an...
What I wouldn’t give for a stink-proof nose. When I was a kid, my mom would occasionally cook a particular...
Heavy emphasis on ‘potential.’ Out of every planet in our Solar System that we’d expect to be secretly housing life,...
A little bit of splicing, and you get Avatar plants. Bioluminescence is an ability possessed by several species of plants...
Out of the ocean and into a microscopic stomach. Plastic waste is one of the most pressing environmental concerns of...
Whale songs could teach us more than just whale habits. Have you ever heard a whale song in person? It’s...
“This is what all those hours of playing Tetris were for.” When you buy meat from the grocery store, it...
The ice-cold planet was discovered with a radio telescope. Most stars out there in the big dark emit tracible heat...
Reinvesting carbon into the fuel of tomorrow. I doubt I have to explain this, but vehicles of all kinds tend...
These ain’t your grandma’s milliseconds. You ever have one of those arguments growing up about who could name the biggest...
Like water off a duck’s back. The term “hydrophobic,” in the context of chemistry, refers to materials and chemicals that...
As the old saying goes, science isn’t about “why,” it’s about “why not?” Okay, I’m gonna lay some dime-store physics...