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An artist’s impression of the Tunguska airburst over central Siberia on 30 June 1908. An explosion powerful enough to destroy millions of trees should have left behind a giant crater. Instead, when scientists finally reached the remote Siberian wilderness where the blast had occurred, they found only a forest laid out like matchsticks. There was…

Quote of the day by Stephen Hawking (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Today’s quote of the day comes from Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist who spent more than five decades living with a diagnosis that was originally expected to kill him within two years. He said, “I have lived with the prospect of an early death for…

For decades, palaeontologists have puzzled over a scene preserved in rock across parts of Mongolia and China. Fossilised oviraptor dinosaurs were repeatedly found sitting over nests in a posture that looked strikingly familiar. Their forelimbs spread across the clutch, their bodies positioned above the eggs, almost as if they were brooding like modern birds.The image…

Quote of the day by Marie Curie (AI-generated image) Today’s quote of the day comes from Marie Curie, the physicist and chemist who remains the only person ever to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. She wrote, “One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”…

An invasive snake that likely arrived on Guam hidden inside military cargo after the Second World War went on to transform the island’s ecosystem in ways scientists are still trying to understand. The brown tree snake, native to parts of Australia, Papua New Guinea and nearby islands, found an environment unlike any it had encountered…

Nasa has taken another step towards building a permanent human presence on the Moon by awarding almost $600 million in fresh contracts for a new series of robotic lander missions. Rather than focusing on a single spacecraft, the agency is spreading the work across several commercial partners, continuing its strategy of using private companies to…

A routine archaeological excavation beneath a quiet village in northeastern France has uncovered one of the most remarkable Roman coin hoards found in recent years. Hidden for around 1,700 years, three ceramic jars packed with an estimated 40,000 bronze and copper Roman coins were discovered beneath the remains of an ancient neighbourhood in Senon. Far…

Mount Everest is widely recognised as Earth’s highest mountain, standing as the ultimate symbol of altitude and exploration. According to NASA, beyond our planet lies a volcanic giant that dwarfs every mountain on Earth. Olympus Mons, an enormous shield volcano on Mars, rises to a height of around 27 kilometres, nearly three times taller than…

The question of whether humanity is alone in the universe has fascinated scientists for generations, but few have pursued an answer as publicly or as controversially as Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. While most researchers argue that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, Loeb believes advanced alien civilisations may already have left technological traces in our cosmic…

Quote of the day by Alexander Graham Bell (AI-generated image) Today’s quote of the day is widely quoted as having been said by Alexander Graham Bell, the Scottish-born inventor best remembered for giving the world the telephone. The line reads, “The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.” It has…