Various environmental and social factors contribute to water shortages in Kabul. (Image courtesy of Collab Media via Getty Images) The city of Kabul in Afghanistan is at risk of becoming the first modern city to run out of water, according…
3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet currently hurtling toward the Sun on a one-way trip through the Solar System. (Image credit: Darryl Seligman et al.) Comet 3I/ATLAS is approximately 7 miles (11.2 kilometers) wide, making it the largest interstellar object ever…
Mono Lake, California, where the GFAJ-1 bacterium was identified in 2010. (Image credit: Alamy) After 15 years of debate, a study that claimed to have found a microbe that uses arsenic as a food source has been retracted by the…
Video service on the coast attracts thousands of believers Every week, a Catholic mass on the beach in Long Island, New York, draws crowds of worshipers. Parishioners share with Fox News Digital what the mass means to them. NEWNow you…
The massive exoplanet TOI-2109b collides with its star and breaks apart. (Image credit: NASA Weiss) A giant planet caught in a deadly spiral around its star may lift the veil on some of the mysteries of star systems. However, the…
Researchers have found a significant number of whale bones on Vilcheka Island, located in the far north of Russia. (Photo: Nikita Demidov, AARI, Alexander Ermolov) Scientists have discovered that a glacier in the Russian Arctic is retreating at an astonishing…
A peatland in the Peruvian Amazon will be carbon neutral in 2022, according to a new study. (Image credit: Cavan Images/Getty Images) A palm peat swamp in the Peruvian Amazon, which typically absorbs more carbon than it releases each year,…
A new study suggests that giant terror birds could have become prey if they weren’t careful around bodies of water. (Photo: Julian Bayona Becerra/Biology Letters) Fossilised bite marks suggest there may have been a spectacular fight between a giant terror…
Robots That Grow By Eating Other Robots – YouTube Continue browsing Scientists have developed a prototype robot that can grow, repair itself and improve itself by using materials from the environment or by “absorbing” other robots. The researchers say it…
The Earth’s rotation has increased in recent decades, leading scientists to speculate about the introduction of the first ever negative leap second. (Image credit: Gearstd/Getty Images) The Earth is spinning so fast that the world’s timekeepers are considering doing something…