Credit: Phil Vandenbossche & Nelson Kuna/CSIRO Looking like the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, an ancient undersea volcano was slowly…
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The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are set to become the mainstay of Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout as the year progresses, according to recently released government…
Children are always going to find cunning ways to bunk off school, and the latest trick is to fake a positive COVID-19 lateral flow test…
The theory that the COVID-19 pandemic was triggered by the Sars-CoV-2 virus being leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China was recently given…
Imagine you sit down and pick up your favorite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the smooth…
The mineral pyrite was historically nicknamed fool’s gold because of its deceptive resemblance to the precious metal. The term was often used during the California gold rush…
New research suggests that Venus’ crust is broken into large blocks – the dark reddish–purple areas – that are surrounded by belts of tectonic structures…
Long misunderstood, snake tongues have fascinated naturalists for centuries. As dinosaurs lumbered through the humid cycad forests of ancient South America 180 million years ago,…
Did the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 result from high-risk research gone wrong? Regardless of the answer, the risk of future pandemics originating from research with dangerous pathogens is real.…
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has recently commissioned three private companies, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics, to develop nuclear fission thermal rockets…
A volcanic eruption on Jupiter’s moon Io. Credit: NASA/JPL/DLR It’s been 30 years since NASA last visited Venus, with the Magellan orbiter in 1990. Now, two new…
Eugene Cernan on the Moon, December 13, 1972, during the Apollo 17 mission, the last manned flight to the Earth’s natural satellite. Credit: NASA The…
The visible surface of the Sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000°C. But a few thousand kilometers above it – a small distance when we consider…
Are microbes traveling around in the galaxy? Are we alone in the universe? The famous SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program has been trying to…
A red blood moon is caused by sunlight passing through the Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: U.S. Navy/Joshua Valcarcel/WikimediaCommons The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going…
Credit: CNSA China’s Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the…
Vaccination is one way we can help get kids back to in-person activities. The Food and Drug Administration expanded emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech…
Illustration of space junk orbiting Earth. On May 8, 2021, a piece of space junk from a Chinese rocket fell uncontrolled back to Earth and…
Faster than light travel is the only way humans could ever get to other stars in a reasonable amount of time. Credit: NASA The closest…
Military units like the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade shown here are just one component of U.S. national cyber defense. Credit: Fort George G. Meade Takeaways:…