Gargantuan sunspot 15-Earths wide shoots powerful X-class flare toward Earth, triggering radio blackouts ( www.livescience.com )
Why do people hear their names being called in the woods? ( www.livescience.com )
Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption ( www.livescience.com )
The decipherment of an ancient scroll has revealed where the Greek philosopher Plato is buried, Italian researchers suggest....
The bird that came back from the dead by evolving twice [LiveScience] ( www.livescience.com )
It's great that this article linked to the original journal article. Nice that it's open access, too! So good to see that it's becoming more common. The academic publishing business is just so… well, in a word, fucked.
Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos ( www.livescience.com )
Southern Grasshopper mouse: The tiny super-predator that howls at the moon before it kills ( www.livescience.com )
One of its favorite prey is the Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus) — whose venom is potent enough to kill humans....
Extremely rare marsupial mole that 'expertly navigates' sand dunes spotted in Western Australia ( www.livescience.com )
The tiny moles are covered in silky, golden fur and spend very little time above ground, although they do occasionally surface in wet and cool weather, according to Animal Diversity Web. But, the majority of the time, these tubular-shaped marsupials move through the sand up to 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) below the surface using their...
Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds ( www.livescience.com )
48 seconds. I predict a glut of helium. balloons for everyone