In Antarctica, they found an atypical inhabitant for these places – an ordinary mosquito. The insect was spotted in a popular tourist destination – King George Island. There are also seven polar stations from...
More than 120,000 lightning strikes have struck South Australia. Of these, 19,608 discharges hit the ground northwest of Adelaide since yesterday morning. The rest were in the ocean and did not hit land. On...
Katie Kangas runs a hotel in Ruby, Alaska. On the morning of October 15, she turned to look out the window towards the house in the yard. She waited for her client to turn...
Locals watched a meteorite fall in the night sky over Puerto Rico. Hundreds of people reported to the police that a meteorite exploded over the city. According to the Caribbean Astronomical Society, the region...
American scientists have compiled a list of star systems from where potential observers can see the Earth and identify life on it. The results are published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
Among the finds from the famous Olduvai Gorge, a serrated spearhead and other bone instruments made 800 thousand years ago were found – most likely by representatives of Homo erectus. American anthropologists examined an...
Being overly optimistic in a pandemic can harm health and psyche, scientists say. The person tends to overestimate the positive experience while minimizing the likelihood of a negative outcome. Psychologists believe that such a...
Researchers from the Association for the Study of Ancient Egypt (AERA) have determined the true dimensions of the Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu), which in ancient times was covered with white limestone cladding. They found...
Purdue University scientists have been inspired by nature to develop 3D light sensors for medical imaging. To do this, they used some of the architectural features of the web, thanks to which it is...
Professor Johnjoe McFadden from the University of Surrey (UK) proposed a new theory according to which the electromagnetic fields in the human brain play a leading role in the emergence of consciousness and the...
