There’s a ‘ghost’ plume lurking beneath the Middle East โ€” and it might explain how India wound up where it is today

There’s a ‘ghost’ plume lurking beneath the Middle East โ€” and it might explain how India wound up where it is today

Scientists have actually discovered a “ghost” plume underneath the Salma Plateau in Oman. (Image credit: Mark Daffey through Alamy) Researchers have actually found an ancient “ghost” plume hiding underneath Oman….

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Thereโ€™s another leak on the ISS, but NASA is not saying much about it

Thereโ€™s another leak on the ISS, but NASA is not saying much about it

Nobody is particular. The very best guess is that the seals on the hatch causing the PrK module are, in some method, dripping. In this situation, pressure from the station…

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There’s a humongous boulder on a cliff in Tonga. Now we know how it got there.

There’s a humongous boulder on a cliff in Tonga. Now we know how it got there.

The Maka Lahi stone was discovered over 600 feet inland from the edge of the cliff, and was most likely swept there by a huge wave 7,000 years earlier, researchers…

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There’s 90,000 tons of nuclear waste in the US. How and where is it stored?

There’s 90,000 tons of nuclear waste in the US. How and where is it stored?

A Southern California Edison worker determines radiation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on March 10, 2020. (Image credit: MediaNews Group/Orange County Register through Getty Images through Getty Images)…

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‘There’s no real competitor’: Theoretical physicist Marika Taylor on how black holes could help us to find a theory of everything

‘There’s no real competitor’: Theoretical physicist Marika Taylor on how black holes could help us to find a theory of everything

An artist’s abstract illustration of cosmic strings. (Image credit: PASIEKA through Getty Images) String theory is the most well recognized prospect for a theory of whatever– a mathematical structure that…

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