Two and a bit tonnes of snapped rock, stacked into neat circles, in a chamber that has never once seen daylight. Nobody has worked out why. Bruniquel Cave sits above the Aveyron gorges in the ...
Minamata Bay, 1974. Made based on National Land Image Information (Color Aerial Photographs), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Stand on the eastern shore of Minamata Bay today ...
A narrow ribbon beside an ultra-diffuse galaxy has become the strongest evidence yet for a globular cluster stellar stream beyond the Milky Way. The feature appears in deep Hubble images of UGC ...
ISRO (GSLV-F14 / INSAT-3DS launch imagery; Government of India / ISRO press gallery — GODL-India commercial reuse) The next second-generation NavIC satellite, NVS-03, is being prepared for flight on a ...
A bicolor damselfish, one of the two species whose escape responses were measured. Photo: Andy Blackledge, CC BY 2.0. Looming is the word for what an approaching object does to an eye. The image of ...
For decades, the ultracompact X-ray binary 4U 1626−67 has behaved like a machine that periodically changes gear. Its neutron star spun faster for years, slowed for roughly 18 years, then began ...
A registered beefalo, the bison-cattle breed at the centre of the study. Credit: Karl Young, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A bull called Joe’s Pride changed hands in 1975 for $2.5 million. His ...
A clay tablet and the envelope it was sealed in, from the Old Assyrian period, shown separately on a museum mount. The letter described in this article has never been taken out of its envelope. Photo ...
Fine filaments and root hairs in topsoil. Arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae themselves are far thinner — 10 to 50 times narrower than a human hair. It would also stretch a little over a tenth of the way ...
Lake Peigneur, in the Cajun country of southern Louisiana, was a modest body of water with an unusual basement. The lake itself was about 1,300 acres and only ten or eleven feet deep — a placid ...
Somewhere in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, off a private service road that no visitor is allowed to drive, sits a heap of rainbow-colored fossil wood that appears on no map and no exhibit.
Sisters Islands, Singapore. Photo: Stefan Fussan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Eight structures went down on bare sand in 2018. Four years later, the two that nobody planted anything on were ...
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