The National Geodetic Survey has spent years building a replacement for the reference system that fixes every published position in the country. New geodetic-control submissions into the old system ...
Two and a bit tonnes of snapped rock, stacked into neat circles, in a chamber that has never once seen daylight. Nobody has worked out why. Bruniquel Cave sits above the Aveyron gorges in the ...
Cyanobacteria bloom in a shallow Michigan lake during the fall of 2024. Photo by Leon Katona. Public domain (USGS). In the summer of 2024, a small lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was ...
A registered beefalo, the bison-cattle breed at the centre of the study. Credit: Karl Young, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A bull called Joe’s Pride changed hands in 1975 for $2.5 million. His ...
Giant sunspot on the solar disk imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on 24 October 2014 — thematic full-disk sunspot imagery. Credit: NASA/SDO, public domain. That number matters because of ...
Twice a week the most famous fountain in Rome is switched off, drained and vacuumed like a lounge room carpet. Workers climb down into the emptied basin with long-handled brushes, sweep the coins into ...
Moa eggshell scattered across the floor is how the cave got its name, and it turned out to be the least interesting thing in there. Moa Eggshell Cave sits near Waitomo on New Zealand’s North Island, ...
The Milky Way above distant settlement lights and a broad dome of artificial skyglow. This is a long-exposure photograph, which records more stellar detail than the unaided eye and illustrates the ...
The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...
Pick up a wood frog in the middle of a Canadian January and it feels like a rock. Ice crusts the eyelids. There is no heartbeat, no breathing, no measurable nerve activity, and close to two thirds of ...
In 2021, a chile plant did something on the International Space Station that it has never done on Earth: it held its fruit out straight. Plant Habitat-04 ran for 137 days inside the Advanced Plant ...
Photo: Ryan Hodnett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Verbascum thapsus — the long-lived germinator in Beal’s buried-seed experiment. In the fall of 1879, a botanist at what was then Michigan ...
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