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Scientists have made quite the discovery on Mercury. As the planet closest to our Sun, Mercury is an intriguing planet, especially when you think about the possibility of what the surface of the small world looks like. Now, scientists believe that Mercury could be home to exotic glaciers of salt and that life on Mercury could be hiding beneath those glaciers. It isn’t entirely unreasonable to think that Mercury might be home to glaciers of salt, especially considering that certain salt compounds here on Earth…

Adura Onashile encountered so much racism when she was growing up in London that playing outside was impossible and, for almost a year, she had to be escorted to school by a council worker. “I felt very unseen,” she says. “There will always be that little girl in me who’s scared of being rubbed away.”Her mum was an NHS midwife and during this period, the two “became even closer – often the lines were blurred between whether we were mother and daughter, sisters, or best friends”. Onashile knows it sounds perverse, but that…

Vijay Janapa Reddi runs a lab at Harvard University where he and his team attempt to solve some of the computer world’s greatest challenges. As a specialist in artificial intelligence systems, the technology he studies even follows him home, where his two daughters love to talk to their Amazon Alexa. “They put a person inside that black box,” Janapa Reddi likes to joke with his four-year-old.Janapa Reddi may be teasing when he tells his daughter a person is squeezed into their machine, but isn’t that where we’re headed?…

“For centuries, vampire clans have waged wars over petty squabbles, debts, and livestock. Commanding legions of vampires, hordes of demons and underlings, the world has been decimated several times over due to such recklessness. To prevent yet another devastating aftermath over simple disputes, the great leaders of the vampire clans formed an eternal agreement. All conflicts, be it rival or inter clans, would settle their dispute through competitive games. Games specifically picked and agreed upon by all parties involved…

David Grusch testifies during a congressional hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, on July 26, 2023. We are not alone—and American authorities are covering up the evidence, a former US intelligence officer told a congressional committee on Wednesday. David Grusch testified that he "absolutely" believes the…

Few people on Earth have reached closer to its center than Buzz Speyrer, a drilling engineer with a long career in oil and gas. It’s about 1,800 miles down to the core, smoldering from celestial impacts that date back billions of years and stoked to this day by friction and radioactivity. That heat percolating upwards turns the rock above into a viscous liquid and beyond that into a gelatinous state that geologists call plastic. It’s only within about 100 miles of the surface that rock becomes familiar and hard and…

A US Congressman, Tim Burchett, believes in a whistleblower's claims that the government is covering up evidence of alien spacecraft (UFO). The whistleblower, David Charles Grusch, a former analyst at the Department of Defense, stated in an interview that the government possesses physical evidence of intact and partially intact alien vehicles but is withholding it from Congress, the Metro reports. Representative Burchett supports the whistleblower's claims and suggests that the government has been hiding such evidence…

For a century, scientists have been confused by Uranus and Neptune's orbits. There has been a long held belief that a 9th, undiscovered planet may be influencing their orbit. Now, we have some proof that explains the planet's odd behaviour…

In 1906, astronomer and businessman Percival Lowell launched a search for "Planet X," a hypothetical giant planet orbiting the sun beyond Neptune. Lowell was convinced that Planet X existed based on some supposed irregularities he had observed in the orbits of Neptune and Uranus. His belief eventually led to the discovery of Pluto in 1930, though scientists later determined that the dwarf planet was too small to have a gravitational impact on Neptune's orbit (let alone Uranus').  Today, the Planet X hypothesis is largely…

On a clear September day in 2015, after 10 years of working to get funding, my colleague Kerry Key and I stepped aboard the R/V Langseth, a research ship docked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. We were about to lead a 10-day expedition to map a deposit of fresh water, size unknown, hidden 100 meters (about 330 feet) under the rocky seafloor. Back in the 1960s the U.S. Geological Survey had drilled a series of vertical boreholes off the New Jersey coast, looking for sand deposits and other…