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Space photo of the week: Little Dumbbell Nebula throws...
Astronomers celebrated the Hubble Space Telescope's 34th anniversary with this stunning image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula — a vast...
Can humans see ultraviolet light?
Ultraviolet has very short and energetic wavelengths that are shorter than violet on the visible spectrum. But can people see UV?
Eclipse from space: Paths of 2024 and 2017 eclipses collide...
Satellite images capture striking differences between the 2017 and 2024 total solar eclipses that swept across North America, including...
32 times lasers revealed hidden forts and settlements from...
Lasers have helped uncover ancient human-made structures the world over.
Pigbutt worm: The deep-sea 'mystery blob' with the rump...
Bizarre worm that looks "like the rump of a pig from one side and Mick Jagger's lips from the other" may be in the middle of an evolutionary...
Why does striking flint against steel start a fire?
What's the science behind starting a fire with flint and steel?
Traces of hallucinogenic plants and chile peppers found...
An environmental DNA analysis of soil collected at an ancient Maya ball court reveals that the site was once part of a ritual.
New UTI vaccine wards off infection for years, early studies...
More than 50% of the patients who used a new mouth-spray-based vaccine didn't have a UTI for up to nine years.
