A NASA astronaut posted heartbreaking photographs of the smoke that has blanketed Australia as wildfires continue to ravage the continent. “Australia. Our hearts and thoughts are with you,” wrote NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who resides on the International Space Station about 250 miles above our planet. Roughly 70 percent of Australia is covered by a […]
Rare ‘Martian’ mineral mounds appear in Utah’s Great Salt Lake
Mounds of a rare crystalline mineral emerged above the surface of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. The four white mounds, which are up to 3 feet high and dozens of feet across, were first seen in October, according to a blog post by Utah State Parks officials. After they tested the mounds, state geologists discovered that […]
Pelosi slams ‘shameful’ Facebook, accuses tech giant of misleading users
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted Facebook on Thursday, calling the tech giant “shameful” for misleading its users. “The Facebook business model is strictly to make money. They don’t care about the impact on children, they don’t care about truth, they don’t care about where this is all coming from, and they have said even if […]
Significant Mount Everest ice loss revealed in spy satellite images
The glaciers around Mount Everest have lost a significant amount of ice — about 8 inches per year, according to declassified spy satellite photographs. Researchers were able to produce digital surface-elevation models of the glaciers using decades-old images — along with newly collected data — to create a comprehensive record of ice melt. The glaciers […]
Scottish 16th-century woman scarred by leprosy seen in amazing digital reconstruction
Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a Scottish woman who was scarred by leprosy more than 500 years ago. Forensic artists reconstructed 12 faces based on skulls that were discovered in a cemetery at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland. One of uncovered skulls was a woman with leprosy. “We are revisiting a lot of […]
Nuclear winter would trigger a global famine, but one expert says his doomsday diet could save humanity
A full-scale nuclear war would likely trigger a worldwide period of cold and darkness that could spark a famine. However, David Denkenberger, a mechanical engineer at the University of Alaska who runs the nonprofit Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED), told Business Insider that it would still be possible to save humanity with […]
Humanity’s footprint is squashing the world’s wildlife
The planet’s wildlife is increasingly living under the boot of humankind, a new study claims. A group of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), University of Queensland and elsewhere used a comprehensive dataset on the “human footprint,” which calculates the accumulated impact of human activities on the land’s surface, to discover that a staggering […]
Top-secret UFO files could ‘gravely damage’ US national security, Navy says
The Department of Defense has top-secret classified briefings and a classified video about a UFO incident. The U.S. Navy acknowledged the existence of the information, which concerns a 2004 encounter between the USS Nimitz and strange unknown aerial objects, in response to a public records request from Vice. Last year, the Navy for the first time […]
Meteorite contains 7-billion-year-old stardust, the oldest material on Earth
A meteorite that fell 50 years ago in Australia contains stardust that formed 5 to 7 billion years ago — the oldest solid material ever found on Earth — scientists say. When stars die after millions or billions of years, their particles end up in outer space — eventually forming new stars as well as moons […]
NASA captures breathtaking image of nacreous clouds over Sweden
A picture of luminous nacreous clouds over Sweden was released by NASA on Friday. “Vivid and lustrous, wafting iridescent waves of color filled this mountain and skyscape near Tanndalen, Sweden,” NASA writes in a statement. Nacreous clouds, which are also known as mother-of-pearl clouds, are very rare to appear but impossibe to forget. They tend […]
