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Science news this week: Lava lakes and moon chunks
Oct. 29, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Oct. 29, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Engravings of human faces, animals and geometric shapes were spotted on normally submerged rocks after more than half of the Negro River dried up.
Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit to alleviate the space junk problem.
Around Halloween in 2003, a series of massive solar storms erupted from the sun, including an absolute monster coronal mass ejection (CME) that remains the most powerful solar outburst in modern records.
A study of 30 women with regular menstrual cycles suggests that the structure of the brain fluctuates in time with hormonal shifts.
Darwin and fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace predicted the existence of Wallace's sphinx moth from an orchid with an extremely long nectar tube.
A rare gold coin found by a metal detectorist and recently auctioned off was minted by a little-known ruler in pre-Roman Britain.
The sunken public building was discovered in the underwater ruins of ancient Greek city.
Jupiter's swirling clouds form an eerie image that resembles a face.
Don't expect an alien invasion anytime soon.
Mummified mice found atop volcanoes in South America have long hinted that rodents forage on peaks as tall as 22,000 feet, but it turns out mice permanently live at these extreme heights.
When added to mammalian cells, instead of activating inflammatory pathways as expected, one particular bacteriophage stimulated the cells to grow and survive.
Researchers have found evidence suggesting wild chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park go through menopause, shedding light on the evolution of this rare trait in humans.
Here's a look at when the time changes for daylight saving time and who instituted daylight savings in the first place.
The James Webb Space Telescope's detection of tellurium in the violent environment of a dead-star merger is a step toward determining where the universe's heaviest elements come from.
The spider in the woman's ear was making continuous, weird clicking and rustling noises that were so bad, she couldn't sleep.
NASA's OSIRIS REx mission cost $1.16 billion for just under 9 ounces of asteroid dust. But it's hardly the most expensive material in science. Here's where it ranks.
The photos, taken in the 1960s and 1970s by the first spy satellites, reveal that the eastern border of the Roman Empire was a place of vibrant trade.