‘It’s really an extraordinary story,’ historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
fetchpriority=”high”> The storage rooms at Pompeii maintain artifacts and bodies of the countless individuals who didn’t outrun the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. (Image credit: Getty Images) The spooky casts of…
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Roos Carr figures: Creepy 2,600-year-old carvings with ‘removable genitalia’ and eyes that may have symbolized Odin’s soothsayer powers
The figurines ‘spooky eyes might connect them to the Norse god Odin. (Image credit: Alamy) FAST FACTS Call: Roos Carr figures What it is: A set of figurines sculpted from…
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Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah
The National Transportation Safety Board verified Sunday that it is examining an airliner that was struck by an item in its windshield, mid-flight, over Utah. “NTSB collecting radar, weather condition,…
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Rainbow-on-a-chip’ could help keep AI energy demands in check — and it was created by accident
A laboratory mishap has actually led engineers to construct a chip that fires a rainbow of effective laser beams. (Image credit: MirageC/Getty Images) A laboratory mishap has actually led engineers…
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Scientists discover new way to predict next Mount Etna eruption
An effective eruption rocked Mount Etna on June 2, 2025. (Image credit: Salvatore Allegra/Anadolu through Getty Images) A freshly found method to keep track of lava motions underneath Mount Etna…
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Easter Island statues may have ‘walked’ thanks to ‘pendulum dynamics’ and with as few as 15 people, study finds
Field experiments exposed that utilizing rope and a little group of individuals, individuals of Rapa Nui might have “walked” the moai statues. (Image credit: Carl Lipo ) Easter Island’s huge…
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New smart ring is a novel way to control your computer — it has the humble mouse firmly in its sights
A brand-new light-weight computer system mouse can be endured your finger like a ring. (Image credit: © 2025 Takahashi et al. CC-BY-ND ) Scientists have actually established a light-weight computer…
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Double comet alert! Comets Lemmon and SWAN will reach their brightest this week — here’s how to spot them
[ 19659002]Comet C/2025 A6(Lemmon)will reach its closest indicate Earth today, simply one day apart from the unassociated comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN). (Image credit: Getty Images/ Javier Zayas Photography) If you…
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New Species of Hawk-Cuckoo Discovered in Borneo
A group of ornithologists from the National University of Singapore, Birdtour Asia Ltd., and the University of Queensland has actually explained a brand-new and puzzling types of the hawk-cuckoo genus…
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$20 million NASA mission to visit ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid saved from budget cuts in last-minute decision
An illustration of asteroid Apophis flying previous Earth. A NASA objective to study the asteroid in 2029 has actually been conserved from the scrap load in a last-minute choice. (Image…
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