3D Perspective View of Latona Corona and Dali Chasma on Venus. Source: Getty Images The surface of Venus is scoured with strange, quasi-circular features called coronae. Unlike anything seen on Earth today, they can stretch hundreds of miles in diameter, even going past the thousand mark. Or they can be as little as a few dozen miles across. In images …
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What started as a routine cleaning job turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery for Jennifer Dowker, a boat captain and scuba instructor in Cheboygan, Michigan. While cleaning the hull of her glass-bottom tour boat, she spotted a small green bottle resting on the riverbed. Curious, she dove down and retrieved it—only to find a delicate, handwritten note inside. To her surprise, …
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1/34 Cleveland Guardians vs. Texas Rangers, September 27, 2025 CLEVELAND, Ohio — They did it! That’s what I kept saying, after the Guardians beat Texas, 3-2, to clinch a playoff spot. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User …
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Natural glass found only in Australia could be evidence of an unknown, ancient asteroid impact, researchers say. A new analysis of impact-created “tektites” points to a powerful collision millions of years ago that hurled debris across southern Australia. Scientists are still looking for the impact crater. “These glasses are unique to Australia and have recorded an ancient impact event we …
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Who’d have thought a twitcher’s photo would reveal so much about bird patterns – and our warming planet? What looked like an odd-coloured jay in a Texas suburb has turned out to be a groundbreaking discovery: a natural hybrid between two species that, until recently, didn’t share the same habitat. The two different parent species – the green jay and …
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A time crystal as seen under a microscope.Credit: Zhao & Smalyukh, 2025, Nature Materials A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal crystal repeat in space. Examples once existed in only complex, quantum matter, but now physicists have found a way to make a time crystal …
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With Tesla shareholders set to vote on a proposed 10-year, $1 trillion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk in November, board chair Robyn Denholm spoke to The New York Times to defend what would be the largest pay package in corporate history. Denholm, who was also on the special committee that put the compensation proposal together, argued that Musk needs …
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The odd dwarf planet Quaoar might have a brand-new moon. Observations of the tiny world, made by a pair of astronomers in California, suggest it possesses either a second satellite or a third ring. Quaoar and our solar system’s other dwarf planets are generally so far away that they are a challenge to view directly from Earth. (An exception is …
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A man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump wanted to quiz potential jurors with a series of odd questions. Ryan Routh, 59, wanted to ask a series of unconventional questions on topics, including turtles, Gaza, and Greenland. His list of questions included asking jurors their reactions to seeing a turtle in the road while they are driving. He also …
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We’ve arrived at the peak week of hurricane season – the traditional midpoint of the Atlantic’s yearly activity is September 10 – but you wouldn’t know it from the Tropical Weather Outlook issued by the National Hurricane Center, or NHC, on Monday, September 8. The headline: “Tropical cyclone activity is not expected during the next 7 days.” As we reported last …
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