Shipworms have long been a menace to humankind, sinking ships, undermining piers, and even eating their way through Dutch dikes in the mid-1700s. Now, researchers have found the first shipworm that eschews wood for a very different diet: rock.
READ MOREA strange creature digging up a hole in a cemetery. Is it just a man who likes digging with their bare hands, or is it something we’d rather not know?
READ MOREThis study could lead to growing artificial blood vessels in space, ready for human surgery on Earth.
READ MOREAstronomers using the twin LIGO detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector located near Pisa, Italy, have detected gravitational waves from the most massive binary black hole merger ever discovered. The two spinning black holes merged when the Universe was only about 7 billion years old, which is roughly half its present age, and formed a larger black hole weighing a whopping 142 times the mass of the Sun — a so-called intermediate-mass black hole.
READ MOREA curious piece of footage out of New Jersey shows a puzzling trio of mysterious lights hovering in the night sky and some observers suspect that they belonged to a triangular UFO.
READ MOREIt is a well-known astronomical convention that Earth has only one natural satellite, which is known (somewhat uncreatively) as “the Moon”. However, astronomers have known for a little over a decade that Earth also has a population of what are known as “transient Moons”. These are a subset of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that are temporarily scooped up by Earth’s gravity and assume orbits around our planet.
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