A picture taken on July 19, 2020, shows a screen broadcasting the launch of the “Hope” Mars probe at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai. The United Arab Emirates’ probe Hope is on its way to Mars, marking…
This map shows 11 billion years of the universe’s history, with galaxies closest to Earth appearing in purple and blue, and distant galaxies in yellow and red. After five years of peering into the deepest reaches of space, researchers have…
Tracking the close contacts of people who test positive for COVID-19 should, in theory, allow health departments to identify and isolate new cases of the virus before they spark surges of infection — and yet, in the U.S., daily coronavirus…
A digital rendering of the fourth-century B.C. Temple of Asklepios at Epidaurus (right). Notice the ramp on the temple’s east side. The ancient Greeks didn’t construct temples just for able-bodied people; this ancient society purposefully built ramps at some of…
Heni Nuraeni, who already has two children, claims her baby formed inside her in just one hour rather than the normal nine months before she gave birth in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia Heni Nuraeni and her baby son (Image: CEN) An woman…
AN END OF THE WORLD-threatening event would no doubt see the majority of humanity wiped from the face of the Earth, but in the slim chance that some do survive, a “Noah’s Ark” of bacteria could give the opportunity to…