Researchers suspect a genetic mutation may have gifted the giant fish, named Inspector Clouseau, his rosy hue. Inspector Clouseau, the world’s only known pink manta ray (Kristian Laine / Instagram). By Katherine J. Wu, smithsonianmag.com – Just in time for the rosiest holiday …
For the first time since the Vikings sailed, the Icelandic public will soon be able to worship classical Norse gods like Odin, Thor, and Frigg at a public temple built in their honor. By Orion Jones – Photo credit: Shutterstock – For the …
Physicists propose using time crystals to bring about a quantum computing revolution. By Paul Ratner – Adobe stock. A team of scientists proposes using time crystals to power topological superconductors. The approach could lead to error-free quantum computers. Time crystals appear to break …
Discovered on the island of Lindisfarne, the artifact was likely once part of a Hnefatafl board game set. A piece of worked glass unearthed from the English island of Lindisfarne that researchers suspect may have once been a Viking game piece (Jeff Veitch). …
The world’s most isolated inhabited island also has some of the world’s strangest toponyms. Tristan da Cunha, spotted by NASA’s Terra ASTER satellite in 2006. Image: NASA ASTER Volcano Archive, JP. By Frank Jacobs – Tristan da Cunha is the world’s most isolated …
By C.C. Weiss – Elektro Frosch Pro scooter camper. Elektro Frosch. – Forget all about the Tesla Cybertruck camper because there’s an even stranger electric pickup camper roaming the world. The Elektro Frosch camping scooter explores the outdoors one charge at a time, sending …
By Michael Irving – Researchers have found that treating drinking water with chlorine could produce previously-unknown byproducts. Shebeko/Depositphotos. – Adding chlorine is one of the most common methods of disinfecting drinking water, but just how safe is it? Researchers from Johns Hopkins have now …
By Rich Haridy – Second-placed best single Photograph of the Year in the International Landscape Photographer of the Year awards. Sander Grefte/International Photographer of the Year. – Amateur Russian photographer Oleg Ershov has won the International Landscape Photographer of the Year award with a …
By Dr. Christopher Binetti – a political scientist, historian, and adjunct professor at Middlesex county College in Edison, New Jersey. – Spain is facing an existential crisis. Catalonia, one of its seventeen constituent regions, has a government supported by a small majority that …
By Michael Irving – From left, researchers on the study Zhiyong Xia, Matthew Logan and Spencer Langevin. Johns Hopkins APL. Clean water is all around us, and more literally than you might think – it’s floating around in the air most of …
