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The fireball seen in the sky from across Western Washington and British Columbia, followed by a sonic boom, was indeed a meteor which was travelling slightly east of north at a speed of about 33 kilometres per second, or about 119,000 km/h, reports confirmed. Several people called the police without understanding whether it was an…

Lab-grown diamonds feel like a modern miracle! Stones that look just like the real thing, but without the astronomical price tag. And the story behind them is surprisingly long. Humans have been fascinated with replicating diamonds for centuries, ever since Antoine Lavoisier identified them as pure carbon in the 18th century. From early experiments in…

Early risers along Florida’s Space Coast were treated to something unusual on Wednesday morning. As the first light of dawn crept over the Atlantic, a rocket streaked into the sky and left behind a glowing cloud that looked almost otherworldly. For a few minutes, the shape drifting across the sky resembled a giant jellyfish floating…

Mars once had beaches like Earth (Image source: Canva) For decades, scientists have debated whether Mars once had a large ocean. Images from orbiters have shown valleys, channels and features that look like dried riverbeds. However, clear proof of an ancient ocean has remained difficult to confirm. China’s Zhurong Mars rover has sent back new…

The ground at Yellowstone does not always move quietly, and sometimes it waits for years before suddenly coming back to life. That is exactly what has happened at Echinus Geyser, the world’s largest acidic geyser, which has erupted again after nearly six years of relative silence. Visitors at Yellowstone National Park are once more witnessing…

Can crickets really tell the temperature (Image source: Canva) On a warm summer night, when everything else grows quiet, the air begins to buzz with a steady rhythm. Crickets chirp from the bushes, from tree branches, from somewhere you can’t quite see. It feels like background noise until you realise those chirps are doing more…

A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has unveiled a solar-powered machine capable of extracting up to 1,000 litres of clean drinking water per day from dry desert air, a breakthrough that could reshape how the world tackles water scarcity. Professor Omar Yaghi, a materials scientist at University of California, Berkeley, developed the system using metal-organic frameworks, or…

NASA to analyze fermented food samples from space (Image source: nasa.gov) NASA is running a new scientific study on the International Space Station (ISS) to understand how certain fermented foods and useful nutrients behave in space. This research is part of a larger effort to prepare for long missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond….

NASA reveals how a lunar eclipse looks from the Moon (Image source: Canva) When people on Earth watch a lunar eclipse, they see the Moon slowly move into Earth’s shadow and turn reddish for a short time. It is a familiar sight for skywatchers. But have you ever wondered how a lunar eclipse looks from…

Why the Moon turns red during a total lunar eclipse It can be very dramatic when the Moon slowly gets darker and then turns a deep red. People have been afraid of this sight for hundreds of years. A lot of old cultures thought it was a sign of bad things to come. Science gives…