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Hurricane Milton is tied for the fastest-forming Category 5 hurricane on record. It could become the new normal.
Hurricane Milton captured by NASA's GOES-East satellite as it made landfall on Florida's west coast. (Image credit: xCira/Noaa/Noaax via Alamy)…
Evidence of Assyrians’ conquest of Holy Land discovered in Jerusalem
An aerial view of the excavation at Mordot Arnona in Jerusalem, which shows the remains of an administrative building. (Image…
‘Severe’ geomagnetic storm to slam Earth Thursday, with auroras possible as far south as California and Alabama
A solar flare and related coronal mass ejection that erupted from the sun on Oct. 8 could result in a…
Never-before-seen head of prehistoric, car-size ‘millipede’ solves evolutionary mystery
The 6.5-feet-long (2 meter) arthropod's head has been found for this first time after hundreds of years of uncovering incomplete…
How strong can hurricanes get?
Satellite imagery of Hurricane Milton on October 8th, 2024. (Image credit: CIRA/NOAA) Hurricane Milton, which is expected to make landfall…
32 things on Mars that look like they shouldn’t be there
Is that really a floating spoon on Mars or just a strange rock? (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) As one of Earth's…
New ‘biological aging’ test predicts your odds of dying within the next 12 months
A new test, called CheekAge, measures biological age using cells from the inside surface of the cheek. (Image credit: Peter…
Ancient piece of driftwood hidden for thousands of years could hold secrets for combating climate change
A really old and remarkably well-preserved log buried almost 4,000 years ago provides key evidence to support a simple and…
Mystery iron-rich magma entombed in dead volcanoes could be rich source of rare earth elements
El Laco in Chile is an iron-rich volcano complex and also a source of rare earth elements. (Image credit: Daniel…
Scientists restore monkey’s vision with a patch made from human stem cells
Scientists grew stem cells into a "patch" that could be used to repair a hole in a monkey’s retina. (Image…
Scientists discover bright ‘sungrazer’ comet that could be visible with the naked eye this month — after Tsuchinshan–ATLAS
Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS has been shining in the night sky over the last few weeks. This photo taken from the International…
‘It will be comparable with the industrial revolution’: Two legendary AI scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for work on neural networks
The Nobel Committe for Physics announces John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton as the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for…
Hurricane Milton: Jaw-dropping images taken from space show the storm rapidly intensifying as it approaches Florida
An image of Hurricane Milton moving towards Florida taken with the GOES satellite on Monday (Oct. 6). (Image credit: (CSU/CIRA…
NASA’s exoplanet hunter TESS spots a record-breaking 3-star system
Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists have spotted a record-breaking triple-star system so tightly bound…
