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Mount Everest is the world’s tallest mountain as measured from sea level. But will it hold that title forever?To answer this question, first we must understand how mountains form and…
Earth’s mantle is split by the Pacific Ring of Fire, an ancient schism that reflects the creation and destruction of the supercontinent Pangaea, a new study finds.One of these sections…
Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand…
Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making…
You don’t need a telescope to see that the moon is riddled with craters. For billions of years, our celestial neighbor has been absolutely bombarded by asteroids and comets, and…
Name: Babirusa (Babyrousa)Where it lives: Sulawesi and neighboring islands in IndonesiaWhat it eats: Leaves, fruit, mushrooms, tree bark, insects, fish and small mammalsWhy it’s awesome: When we think of pigs,…
Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before they hit the ground. Every now and again,…
NASA and its Russian counterpart have identified 50 “areas of concern” related to a long-running leak aboard the space station, a media report states.The leak has been ongoing since 2019…
On July 16, 1945, the U.S. conducted the world’s first nuclear bomb test in the New Mexico desert as part of the Manhattan Project, which led to the detonations of…
A new scientific examination of 800-year-old human remains in Norway corroborates a royal history claiming that a dead body was thrown there to poison its water.The skeletal remains of the…