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Romanian-Australian economist Stefan Mandel and his small team entered the lottery and won. Over and over and over again. The feat, of course, wasn't achieved through having a really lucky set of ...
Nearly 60 percent of the world population will be in a good place to see the entire eclipse from beginning to end.
W hen an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater.
TLP were once assumed to be very rare. Amateur astronomers would note they had only witnessed a handful of flashes after hundreds of hours of telescopic lunar observation. However, modern estimates ...
It’s said the outflow of the Amazon into the Atlantic Ocean is equivalent to 219,000 cubic meters of water per second (7.7 ...
The mystery microbe seemingly straddles the line between living and non-living. It’s cellular, and can create its own ...
This whole class of astronomical objects has set off a search for causes, but even the most likely previous theories don’t ...
An animation using data from the European Space Agency (ESA) allows you to "listen" to Earth's magnetic field being disrupted ...
Pupping grounds, where mother sharks deliver and their babies start their lives, are unknown, despite the pups being ...
The third and final experiment involved a different set of two boxes. One box contained nothing, and the other contained male moths. Male moths can also emit ultrasonic sounds at a similar frequency ...
A female blanket octopus has to be up there as one of the most spectacular sea creatures to see alive in the wild. Growing to the length of an adult human, they trail an iridescent rainbow skirt as ...
Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...