The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist lasted several months from 2011 to 2012, with thieves stealing 3,330 tonnes of maple syrup from a Quebec plant. Image Professionals GmbH / Alamy Stock PhotoMaple syrup for sale in Canada. Over the course…
On the left is Mercury as seen by NASA's Messenger spacecraft. On the right is an approximation of Mercury's true color as seen by the human eye. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) Most meteorites…
Video: Earthquake rocks house, but boy who loves food refuses to give up his noodles A magnitude 4.3 earthquake hit China on June 23, but that didn't stop a little boy from going back for more. His family was having…
The Bullet Cluster spins and sparkles in this merged image from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, CXC) What is it: A cluster of bullets Location: 3.7 billion light years…
An illustration of the known dwarf planets and their moons. From left to right: Pluto (with Charon, Hydra, Myx, Kerberos, and Styx), Eris (with Dysnomia), Makemake, Ceres, and Haumea (with Hiaka and Namaka). (Image credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via…
Japanese quail have become the first birds to be incubated and raised in space. (Image credit: STERKL/Alamy Stock Photo) Japanese quail are small relatives of chickens and turkeys that have one rather unusual feature: the males produce a unique foam…