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Source: Canterbury Museum For a long time, New Zealand’s ancient past felt incomplete. Bits and pieces here and there. A few fossils. Large gaps. Now, a cave near Waitomo on the North Island has quietly changed that picture.Inside it,…

As I encounter more middle-aged people who are only recently coming around to the concept of cooking as a crucial, money-saving life skill, it seems the concurrent embrace of individualized social media and decline in instructive TV…

If you’re in the space business long enough, you learn there are numerous ways a rocket can fail. I’ve written my share of stories about misbehaving rockets and the extensive…

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment is challenging long-held beliefs about the formation of Central Asia’s mountain ranges. According to researchers from the University of Adelaide, the region’s dramatic…

In the shimmering blue waters off Japan's Yonaguni Island lies a geological wonder.With its top peaking just 6 meters (20 feet) below sea level, extending down to a depth of 24 meters, the Yonaguni Monument looks, for all the world,…

D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. Maybe you read these names at the end of 2025 and remember a pang — the way your heart hurt upon hearing the news that these musicians had departed the mortal realm. But it's worth spending the…

Last week, NASA revealed that it lost contact with a vital Martian probe that’s been studying the Red Planet for more than a decade. Despite the mission team’s efforts to restore communication with the orbiter, their…

NASA has officially lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars since 2014.The MAVEN spacecraft – Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 December 2025 while passing behind the…

Technicians work on the MAVEN spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its launch in 2013.…

SAO PAULO -- Simone Guimarães, a retired 52-year-old teacher in Rio de Janeiro, lost at least five relatives to COVID-19: her husband, sister, two brothers-in-law and the godfather of her grandchild. She also lost friends and…