The Israeli and Indian space programs may have suffered setbacks with the recent loss of their lunar landers, but China’s Yutu-2 rover is still crawling across the surface of the Moon, and it made an odd discovery recently. On July 28, Yutu-2 stumbled upon a perplexing sight: shortly before poweringread more
The results of a new genetic survey of Loch Ness have been released, offering a possible explanation for the Loch Ness Monster, better known as “Nessie”, that probably shouldn’t be that surprising. First, the bad news: the survey, first announced in 2017, didn’t turn up any evidence of DNA thatread more
Despite having been downgraded from a fierce Category-5 storm to a Category-2, hurricane Dorian had stalled over the northern Bahamas for over 36 hours–extremely unusual behavior for a tropical storm–killing at least nine people and destroying tens of thousands of homes, causing “unprecedented and extensive” destruction, according to Bahamian Primeread more
A recent recalibration of past climate models has revealed that we appear to have been underestimating the rate of the increase in global temperatures, with the change in the world’s ocean temperatures being off by a tenth of a degree Celsius. This new finding itself may stem from the ongoingread more