Today: September 30, 2024
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Scientists explain Mount Everest's anomalous growth

Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain - towering 5.5 miles (8.85 km) above sea level - and is actually still growing.

Scientists explain Mount Everest's anomalous growth
Science

Scientists explain Mount Everest's anomalous growth

Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain - towering 5.5 miles (8.85 km) above sea level - and is actually still growing.

Scientists explain Mount Everest's anomalous growth
Science

Elusive mid-sized black hole spotted at center of swallowed galaxy

Astronomers have scrutinized a cluster of stars that is the apparent remnant core of a relatively small galaxy that was swallowed by the sprawling Milky Way 8 to

Science|Technology

Seismic data indicates huge underground reservoir of liquid water on Mars

An immense reservoir of liquid water may reside deep under the surface of Mars within fractured igneous rocks, holding enough to fill an ocean that would cover

Seismic data indicates huge underground reservoir of liquid water on Mars
Celebrity|Entertainment

Peter Marshall, original host of TV's 'Hollywood Squares,' dies at 98

Peter Marshall, the cheery actor, singer and nightclub comedian who became one of America's best-known game show hosts on the long-running program "The Hollywood Squares"

Peter Marshall, original host of TV's 'Hollywood Squares,' dies at 98
News|Science|Technology

Spaceflight radiation exposure tested with onboard sensors and mannequins

With the help of mannequins named Helga and Zohar and sensors placed inside a spacecraft, scientists have collected valuable data about radiation exposure for

Spaceflight radiation exposure tested with onboard sensors and mannequins
News|Science|Technology

Spaceflight radiation exposure tested with onboard sensors and mannequins

With the help of mannequins named Helga and Zohar and sensors placed inside a spacecraft, scientists have collected valuable data about radiation exposure for

Spaceflight radiation exposure tested with onboard sensors and mannequins
Health

Study shows how a woman's brain reorganizes during pregnancy

Pregnancy triggers vast changes in a woman's body - hormonal, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary and more.

Study shows how a woman's brain reorganizes during pregnancy
Health

Ants perform limb amputations on injured comrades to save their lives

Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances

Ants perform limb amputations on injured comrades to save their lives
Political

James Inhofe, former senator and leading US conservative, dies at 89

Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe, a mainstay of the ideological right in the U.S.

James Inhofe, former senator and leading US conservative, dies at 89
World

Humans give more viruses to animals than they give us, study finds

Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people.

Humans give more viruses to animals than they give us, study finds
World

Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos

When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial

Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos
World

Study documents headaches experienced by astronauts in space

Research in the expanding field of space medicine has identified many ways in which a microgravity environment and other factors can meddle with the human body

Study documents headaches experienced by astronauts in space
World

Hey, chocolate lovers: new study traces complex origins of cacao

Scientists are getting a better taste of the early history of the domestication and use of cacao - the source of chocolate - thanks to residues detected on a

Hey, chocolate lovers: new study traces complex origins of cacao
World

Earliest-known 'dead' galaxy spotted by Webb telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope since becoming operational in 2022 has uncovered numerous surprises about what things were like in the universe's early stages.

Earliest-known 'dead' galaxy spotted by Webb telescope
World

Stone tools in Ukraine offer oldest evidence of humans in Europe

A dating method based on cosmic rays has identified stone tools found in western Ukraine as the oldest-known evidence of human occupation in Europe - 1.4 million years ago -

Stone tools in Ukraine offer oldest evidence of humans in Europe
World

Atomic scientists keep 'Doomsday Clock' as close to midnight as ever

Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their "Doomsday Clock" set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia's actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of

Atomic scientists keep 'Doomsday Clock' as close to midnight as ever
World

Norman Jewison, director of 'In the Heat of the Night,' dead at 97

Canadian film director Norman Jewison, whose eclectic array of masterpieces included the 1967 racial drama "In the Heat of the Night," the 1987 tart romantic comedy "

Norman Jewison, director of 'In the Heat of the Night,' dead at 97
World

Fossils show dismembered young dinosaurs in belly of T. rex cousin

The young Gorgosaurus knew what it liked for dinner.

Fossils show dismembered young dinosaurs in belly of T. rex cousin
World

Scientists show how to turn lunar soil fertile for agriculture

If humankind is ever to establish long-term bases on the moon, there will be a need for a regular source of food.

Scientists show how to turn lunar soil fertile for agriculture
World

Relics of huge primordial collision reside in Earth's deep interior

Seismologists have recognized since the 1970s that two mysterious continent-sized blobs reside in the deepest part of Earth's mantle, one under Africa and the

Relics of huge primordial collision reside in Earth's deep interior
World

Scientists identify molten layer deep within interior of Mars

Seismic waves generated by a meteorite impact on the other side of Mars from where NASA's InSight lander sits have provided new clues about the Red Planet's deep

Scientists identify molten layer deep within interior of Mars
World

Ancient landscape formed by rivers revealed deep under Antarctic ice

Antarctica has not always been a desolate land of ice and snow. Earth's southernmost continent once was home to rivers and forests teeming with life.

Ancient landscape formed by rivers revealed deep under Antarctic ice
World

Rock collected by Apollo 17 astronaut in 1972 reveals moon's age

During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - U.S. astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected about 243 pounds (

Rock collected by Apollo 17 astronaut in 1972 reveals moon's age
World

Astronomers detect mysterious 8 billion-year-old energetic burst

Astronomers have detected an intense flash of radio waves coming from what looks like a merger of galaxies dating to about 8 billion years ago - the oldest-known

Astronomers detect mysterious 8 billion-year-old energetic burst

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