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May 2026
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Science & Engineering
When Zhang Chenxing, who holds a PhD from MIT, co-founded Mega Engine Technology in…
Constellations
The leading explanation for how the Moon was born is that a world the size of Mars…
Science & Engineering
Earth's magnetic field has flipped hundreds of times, swapping magnetic north and…
Earth & Life
Zealandia, the submerged continent geologists confirmed in 2017, is 94 percent…
Earth & Life
New Zealand and New Caledonia are the only large fragments of Zealandia still…
Science & Engineering
A rainbow is not actually located in any specific place in the sky
Earth & Life
A team led by Nick Mortimer at GNS Science in New Zealand spent two decades mapping…
Constellations
The Moon is stealing time from the Earth, and it has been getting away with it for…
Science & Engineering
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way
Science & Engineering
The bootprints left by the Apollo astronauts will still be sitting on the Moon a…
Science & Engineering
Tyrannosaurus rex lived so much closer in time to the first humans than it did to…
Constellations
Venus spins so slowly that one rotation takes longer than its entire year
Human Behaviour
The 1518 dancing plague of Strasbourg began when Frau Troffea stepped into the…
Human Behaviour
The Overtoun Bridge in Scotland has seen hundreds of dogs leap from the same…
Science & Engineering