By Mark Kaufman – The red-tinged Martian surface. Image: nasa/JpL Scientists don’t expect to get their hands on Martian soil anytime soon, so they’re making their own.Created by University of Central Florida astrophysicists, this red soil, called Mars “simulant,” is designed to …
Image copyright Jonkoping county museum. An eight-year-old found a pre-Viking-era sword while swimming in a lake in Sweden during the summer. Saga Vanecek found the relic in the Vidostern lake while at her family’s holiday home in Jonkoping County. The sword was …
Rich Haridy – The robot is being designed to help combat the country’s declining birthrate and potential future labor shortage (Credit: AIST). A new video from AIST, Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, shows a prototype robot designed to …
By Ashley Strickland, CNN – An Artist’s Conception of the Mysterious Planet X. (CNN) While searching for the mysterious Planet X that some astronomers believe lurks on the edge of our solar system, researchers instead found an extremely distant object they dubbed “the …
The goats are being airlifted away from Olympic National Park as a result of their weird cravings. By Ed Mazza – Mountain goats at Olympic National Park in Washington have developed such a taste for human urine and sweat that they’re starting to …
Miners in Australia discover ‘mother lode’ By Evann Gastaldo – Newser Staff – Stock photo. Not the actual gold found. (Getty Images/HDesert). With just one blast, miners in Western Australia unearthed two large quartz rocks containing gold estimated to be worth about …
Grey African parrot vanished from British owner’s home in Torrance, California in 2010 before reappearing in the same town. Rose Troup Buchanan – A grey African parrot, pictured here in México ( Getty ). A very British pet parrot named Nigel has …
A study finds that one member of a previously unidentified genus of the birds could have weighed more than 1,700 pounds. By Douglas Quenqua – An artist’s impression of an extinct elephant bird. A new study has identified a member of one genus …
Hello, tipping point. Brandon A. Weber – Lake Esieh, in Alaska – Chris Mooney. It’s in a part of Alaska that’s in the Arctic Circle. Each day the lake emits methane at a rate equivalent to about 6,000 cows. If more like it …
Cultured meat is the next step in a long history of alternatives to conventional meat. James R. Howe VI, Neuroscience and Genetics, UC San Diego – Produced in partnership with New Harvest – First cultured hamburger – unbaked. Now, more than …
