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A long-misunderstood 1954 quake may reveal Cascadia’s hidden ability to break in unexpected ways. Credit: SciTechDaily.com In 1954, a mysterious earthquake rattled Northern California near Humboldt Bay, puzzling scientists for decades. A new investigation now suggests it originated not in the usual Gorda Plate faults but on the Cascadia subduction interface—the same fault capable of producing a massive magnitude 9 …

The Consciousness Issue: The Mystery of Being You – Big Think Skip to content Scientists are rethinking how we perceive ourselves — and the world. Introducing Big Think’s Consciousness Issue. Stephen Johnson is the Managing Editor of Big Think. Formerly a long-time contributor to Big Think, he is a St. Louis-based writer and editor whose work has been …

The latest mission of the U.S. Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane is underway. The robotic X-37B lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida tonight (Aug. 21) at 11:50 p.m. EDT (0350 GMT on Aug. 22). The Falcon 9’s first stage returned to Earth as planned 8.5 minutes later, touching down …

Scientists Solve 90-Year-Old Mystery in Quantum Physics  SciTechDailyView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Mystery hominin skull discovered in 1960 dated to at least 286,000 years old  Archaeology News Online Magazine Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old  Phys.org Hominin skull discovered in 1960 finally gets an accurate age  Popular Science 300,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Neanderthals Lived Alongside Another Ancient Human Ancestor  IFLScience Archaeology breakthrough as mystery of 286,000-year-old skull finally ‘solved’  Daily Express Source …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ursa Major III, a faint star cluster over 30,000 light-years away, may be bound by hidden black holes instead of dark matter. | Credit: CFHT/UNIONS/S.Gwyn A ghostly object orbiting the Milky Way has left astronomers questioning its composition: Is it a dark-matter-dominated dwarf …

Social media has been abuzz with users in Japan reporting sightings of a mysterious object that briefly lit up skies across the country’s west on Tuesday night as it fell. A Kyodo News livestream of a volcano on Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture captured the moment at about 11:08 p.m. An official at the Japan weather agency’s Kagoshima meteorological office said …

A 1954 earthquake that rattled Northern California was likely caused by the infamous Cascadia Subduction Zone, a new study finds. The linking of the magnitude 6.5 quake with this particular seismic zone is important, because the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which stretches from northern California to Vancouver Island in Canada, is not known to give off many small or medium quakes. …

Mystery object lights up night skies across western Japan  Japan TodayView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

A ghostly object orbiting the Milky Way has left astronomers questioning its composition: Is it a dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy or a star cluster bound by a hidden swarm of black holes? Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light-years. It is a compact stellar …