Scientists have discovered six entirely new coronaviruses lurking in bats in Myanmar. These viruses are in the same family as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that is currently spreading across the globe; but the researchers said the newbies aren’t closely related genetically…
An image shows the coils of the long siphonophore. Underwater explorers found a 150
A submersible dubbed Jiaolong in the Mariana Trench on June 27, 2012, in the western Pacific Ocean. Plastic
The sun set over the right shoulder of the Sphinx during the spring equinox this year. The Sphinx had a “distinctive astronomical” moment with the sun during the spring equinox when, in a shining flourish, the sun set on the…
An assortment of weathered Lego bricks pulled from the ocean. The ocean around the U.K. is strewn with Lego bricks. Some of them were flushed there; one U.K. insurance company estimates that children flushed some 2.5 million Lego pieces down…
An influenza ward at a U.S. Army Camp Hospital in France during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Throughout the course of history, disease outbreaks have ravaged humanity, sometimes changing the course of history and, at times, signaling the end…