
A new study published in Nature suggests building powerful telescopes in Hawaii and Northern Chile might not be such a great idea.
We know little about lies beneath the vast expanse of ice in Antarctica but researchers this week announced two findings that boggle the mind – analysis of satellite imagery reveals a hidden world underneath Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica that contains a canyon as deep and twice as long as the Grand Canyon and…
Every animal with bones on planet Earth utilizes oxygen that is delivered in its blood via hemoglobin, which binds to the oxygen molecules to make the blood appear red. Every animal that is, except for a newly discovered species, the ocellated icefish (Chionodraco rastrospinosus). The ocellated icefish’s blood has no hemoglobin and hence, its blood…
There’s an ancient map, called the Piri Reis Map, that has scientists scratching their heads and ttheologians saying, “We told you so”. It is extremely accurate and charts much of the land that had yet to be discovered at the time of its creation. Even more remarkably, it charts the Antarctica land mass which was…