If you ever want to pull out the big guns in a pub quiz, then do I have a fact for you! Contrary to popular belief, the biggest organism in the world is not the blue whale. Nor is it the giant sequoia. Nor is it the extinct and admittedly ma-hoo-sive shark, Megalodon. It is… drum roll…
The Milky Way — and in fact our entire galactic neighborhood known as the Local Group — appear to be lodged in a vast, extended “sheet” of dark matter flanked on each side by cosmic voids, new research suggests. The findings, described in a new study published in Nature Astronomy, could help explain the puzzling
A section of the Pelican Nebula captured shining with stars from the constellation Cygnus. (Image credit: Jason Livingston) NASA network engineer and astrophotographer Jason Livingston has captured a colorful view of the Pelican Nebula shining 2,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. Remarkably, he photographed the scene from his light-polluted backyard in Henderson, Nevada,
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft are seen at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sunday. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images Preparations are underway to begin critical testing of NASA spacecraft for the Artemis II
Source: Canterbury Museum For a long time, New Zealand’s ancient past felt incomplete. Bits and pieces here and there. A few fossils. Large gaps. Now, a cave near Waitomo on the North Island has quietly changed that picture. Inside it, scientists have uncovered the remains of wildlife that lived around one million years ago. It
The surface of Venus is notoriously difficult to observe due to its thick, sulfuric atmosphere and crushing pressure. But the planet’s volcanic history is written across its plains, where winding channels and volcanic features hint at an active inner world. Scientists are now turning to lava tubes, long, hollow structures formed by flowing magma, as
The post A Young Bear Thought It Found Easy Prey Until This 800-Pound Protector Intervened appeared first on A-Z Animals. Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube Quick Take Black bears must secure a 40 percent kill rate against moose calves in Alaska. The 53,000 likes on Nature is Metal underscore the bloodthirsty
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The Milky Way — and in fact our entire galactic neighborhood known as the Local Group — appear to be lodged in a vast, extended “sheet” of dark matter flanked on each side by cosmic voids, new research suggests. The findings, described in a new study published in Nature Astronomy, could help explain the puzzling
Around 8000 B.C., a canoe carved from a single pine log came to rest in what is now the Netherlands. The roughly 10-foot-long (3 meters) boat wasn’t discovered until 1955, when a road crew unearthed it from a peat bog near the village of Pesse. The artifact, now known as the Pesse canoe, is the