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A gruesome monument has emerged from the ground where a new railway track is to be laid in Mexico. Just a few meters below the surface, archaeologists performing salvage work ahead of construction found a momoztli – the Indigenous Nahuatl name for a small ritual altar where offerings were left by the community. But this…

I live In the UK and in my job we use droplets of Silver Nitrate to test for presence of salt water in which case the droplet turns a milky white. I had a small dropper bottle amongst my work equipment I brought home. My elderly mother thought it must have been something like olbas…

Imagine playing the game “20 Questions” with the opening question: “Animal, vegetable, or mineral?” For the ancient sea worm Perinereis cultrifera (which is still around to this day), the answer is surprisingly complicated. Like other predatory bristle worms, this species has jaws built from structural proteins and ions. The animals use these hard mouthparts to…

After more than two decades of searching, scientists have finally observed a phenomenon in a hot and dense particle ‘soup’ similar to that which filled the cosmos moments after the Big Bang. The observation could help cosmologists better understand the incredibly hot and dense state of the universe in its earliest moments. The world’s most…

The warming climate fosters hotter temperatures, more intense storms, larger wildfires, and longer droughts, among other extremes. But how much does human-caused climate change influence a specific event such as a heat wave or storm? Scientists in the field of extreme event attribution are increasingly able to answer that question, according to a new report…

Twenty-four Starlink satellites reached low Earth orbit on Tuesday (July 21), a day later than originally scheduled due to a last-second rocket engine abort. SpaceX at first tried to launch the broadband internet relay units on a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday morning (July 20), but an unexpected engine cutoff at the point of ignition…