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 ...
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 ...
A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid mercury hidden inside it. The mercury was the clever trick that made the telescope work. It is now the thing that ...
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 ...
There are roughly two occasions in the entire history of human cartography when a working continental map has felt obliged to include a single individual tree as a labelled feature. Both are in Niger.
Sea-surface temperature anomaly of the global ocean at end of June 2026 (Copernicus Climate Change Service / ECMWF). The world’s oceans are hotter than instruments have ever recorded them, the ...
A hole in the bedroom ceiling, black grit spread across the bed, and a smell like struck matches. Nobody signed for it. The delivery had been a long time coming. On 16 July 2024, a fireball crossed ...
Leonardo da Vinci had no children, which makes the six Italian men now sharing matching Da Vinci paternal Y-chromosome markers a strange sort of heir. They descend instead from his father, Ser Piero ...
René Descartes decided the soul entered the body through the pineal gland, a lump of tissue roughly the size of a rice grain, buried near the centre of the brain. Palaeontologist Julien Benoit, ...
A slab catalogued as Praearcturus sp. in the Yale Peabody Museum invertebrate palaeontology collection, showing the pustulose ornament the revision uses as a Praearcturus character. It is not one of ...
GOES-West view of eastern Pacific tropical cyclones including Marie, 3 September 2026 (NOAA/NESDIS, public domain via Wikimedia Commons). Hurricane Marie was still well out in the eastern Pacific, ...
Thematic only: dry landslide terrain at Tuinkhola, Nepal (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0). Not a photo of the August 2026 flood victims. Rescue crews working in flood-hit areas of northern Nepal are ...
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