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Far below the Arctic Ocean surface, beyond the reach of sunlight and largely untouched by human observation, a month-long expedition has been documenting a world that few people have ever seen. Scientists working aboard a Greenpeace research mission used remotely operated vehicles to explore seamounts, hydrothermal vents and deep seabed habitats off Norway’s coast, recording…

A seismic wave generated by Japan’s devastating 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake travelled nearly 2,900 kilometres to the boundary of Earth’s core, reflected back about 13 minutes later and shifted the entire country eastward by roughly six millimetres, according to a study published in the journal Science. The movement was far too small for anyone…

Scientists have developed a remarkable liquid robot that blurs the line between machines and living organisms. Created by researchers from Seoul National University and Gachon University, the robot is made from liquid metal coated with a dense armour of microscopic particles and embedded with magnetic particles that allow it to be controlled remotely. Unlike conventional…

Humans Fed Salmon to Canines 12,000 Years Ago, Study Suggests, Hinting at the Origin of Our Relationship With Dogs Early humans in Alaska were sharing their salmon catches with ancient canines 12,000 years ago. This shows that close relationships between humans and dog ancestors developed 2,000 years earlier than anyone previously thought in the Americas.The…

Quote of the day by Marie Curie (AI-generated image) Marie Curie wrote this to her brother Joseph on the eighteenth of March, 1894, years before radium, before either of her Nobel Prizes, while she was still a struggling student in Paris. “Life is not easy for any of us,” she wrote. “But what of that?…

For more than 5,300 years, it lay undisturbed beneath a Stone Age tomb in northern Spain, hidden among the remains of nearly 100 people. When archaeologists finally uncovered the ancient skull, they expected another glimpse into prehistoric life. Instead, they found evidence of something far more extraordinary. Careful examination revealed that the woman had undergone…

Image Credit: Facebook/ @Egypt’s State Information Service Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,000-year-old tomb near Luxor, Egypt revealing fresh insights into the country’s ancient past. The tomb, discovered in the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna necropolis on Luxor’s West Bank is believed to have belonged to a senior official named Paser, who lived during the Ramesside period. The…

Concorde flew so high that it was forced to carry a radiation meter to track dangerous cosmic storms British-French supersonic jet Concorde flew so close to the edge of space that it had to carry a special radiation meter to monitor dangerous cosmic storms. If the cockpit instrument sounded an alarm, the only way pilots…

Scientists say crushing deep-ocean pressure squeezes hidden nutrients out of sinking marine snow, feeding microbes and changing what we know about Earth’s carbon cycle (Representational AI image) Life in the deepest parts of the ocean may have access to more food than scientists once believed. A new study has found that the huge pressure found…

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope images of the Crab Nebula Nearly 1,000 years after people first saw a bright new star appear in the sky, scientists have measured how the remains of that explosion are still expanding today.In July 1054, court astronomers in China recorded a bright “guest star” near Tianguan, now known as Zeta Tauri….