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ShadowCam: The Moonshine Project On the south pole of the moon there are some craters that never see sunlight, such as Shackleton Crater. These areas will be explored by astronauts when humans return to the moon later in the future. A new mosaic was recently made using data from two different telescopes: the Lunar Reconnaissance…

Black-footed Cat (African Black-footed Cat) The African black-footed cat has a reputation as the deadliest cat, but if you saw one on a suburban street, you’d probably mistake it for an extremely cute tabby kitten. Felis nigripes is also Africa’s smallest cat. Weighing between 1 to 2 kilograms (2.4 to 4.2 pounds) and measuring 35…

The Devil’s Egg Egg Sponge A big phallic mushroom put on quite a show in eastern Germany, where its life cycle was captured on camera. The mushroom, called Phallus impudicus, looks as NSFW as its species name would have you believe, and the video is really something. It is part of a fungus that lives…

Mummified corpse of a Bulgarian man A corpse in Bulgaria has been found in the stage of complete mummification just 16 days after last being seen alive. The police later confirmed the body to be that of a 34-year-old man with a history of alcoholism. The scientists are baffled by the speed at which the…

Asteroid Samples Relatively Closed After seven years in space, the orbit of Earth and the Bennu finally ends on September 24, allowing the first-ever US asteroid sample return to be made. The capsule will head back to the Johnson Space Center at NASA. Why was Bennu chosen as the target? Asteroid Bennu, the most dangerous…

Green Pool Hair Loss Treatments & Treatments Chlorine in the swimming pool isn’t the cause of green hair, according to Wollstonecraft. It’s copper in the water that turns the hair green after a swim in chlorinated water. The main source of copper in swimming pools is copper sulfate, a substance added to swimming pools to…

The Gulf Stream System’s strength has decreased by 15 percent since 400 AD The warm ocean current that keeps northern Europe habitable is weaker than ever before, according to new research. The Gulf Stream has been weakening since the mid-20th century, and there is now concern that it will weaken further and have catastrophic consequences…

Comet Nishimura Comet C2023 P1 The recently discovered green comet Nishimura survived its closest pass to the sun, which is good for the comet but bad for us: It means soon we won’t be able to see it. The window to spot it is closing, so you’ll need to be quick to catch a last…

Birds Aren’t Real (BAR) In a Ted Talk, the creator of the Bird Aren’t Real movement explains how he works to deprogramming the public from the ‘bird lie.’ That is, he creates signs explaining that birds are not real. For those uninitiated, the Birds Aren’tReal movement claims that birds were once real but have been…

Carbon Neutral Fuels (CNF) While planes can take us to places far and wide, climate change has made people reconsider the carbon footprint of flying. The flight industry is looking towards sustainable aviation fuels, or e-fuels, as a potentially greener alternative to traditional fuels. Carbon Neutral Fuels co-founders explain how they sequester CO 2 in…