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Jupiter s Great Red Spot is a storm larger than Earth.
The Great Red Spot is a giant anticyclone in Jupiter's atmosphere, observed for over 350 years. With a diameter that…
The first electronic computer, ENIAC, weighed about 30 tonnes.
Built between 1943 and 1946, ENIAC occupied a room of 167 square metres and weighed approximately 30 tonnes. It used…
A new species of archaea was discovered living in fumaroles at nearly 100 degrees Celsius in Antarctica.
Brazilian researchers found the archaea on Deception Island, an active volcano where fumarole water reaches…
A species of cicada builds clay towers mixed with urine.
The cicada Guyalna chlorogena, from the Amazon, builds small towers of clay mixed with urine when emerging from the…
Scientists have recreated an ancient yoghurt made with live ants.
A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and chefs from the Noma restaurant recreated an ancient…
The microwave was invented by accident after a chocolate bar melted in an engineer's pocket.
In 1945, Percy Spencer, an engineer at Raytheon, was working with a magnetron when he noticed that the chocolate bar…
A lost world has been discovered beneath the Antarctic ice, with valleys and rivers that flow upwards.
A team from Durham University identified a landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic ice, with valleys and hills…
A Maya royal tomb has been discovered in Belize that may belong to the founder of Caracol.
Archaeologists found a Maya royal tomb in Belize that may belong to the king who founded the city of Caracol. The…
The first evidence of an unknown funerary ritual 4,000 years old has been discovered in Sudan.
Archaeologists found traces of a funerary banquet in northeastern Sudan associated with the ancient Kingdom of Kerma…
A fungus that turns spiders into zombies has been discovered.
A new species of fungus was discovered in 2025 and infects spiders, controlling their behaviour before killing them…
Traces of iron-60 have been found in Antarctic ice.
Iron-60 is a radioactive isotope produced in supernovae that does not occur naturally on Earth. In 2025, scientists…
MIT engineers have created a chip that uses heat to perform calculations.
MIT engineers developed silicon microstructures that perform matrix multiplications using only heat flow, without…
Tridymite, a rare mineral, has been found in Gale Crater on Mars.
Tridymite is a silica mineral that forms under conditions of high temperature and low pressure. Its presence in Gale…
Comet 3I/Atlas originates from outside the Solar System.
Comet 3I/Atlas, discovered on 1 July 2025, is the third known interstellar object to cross the Solar System. Its…
The world's first telephone with built-in microphone and earpiece was invented by a Portuguese man.
Cristiano Bramão, a Portuguese telegraph operator, developed in 1878 a desk telephone that integrated the microphone…
The Antikythera mechanism may have been just a very elaborate toy.
A 2025 study concluded that the gear configuration of the Antikythera mechanism does not work correctly…
Wild chimpanzees were filmed using plants as medicine to treat wounds.
In 2025, researchers filmed wild chimpanzees in Uganda applying crushed insects and plants to open wounds. The…
A new species of lanternshark has been discovered off Western Australia.
CSIRO researchers described the West Australian lanternshark, a small bioluminescent species that lives at depths…
The Harbin skull found in China belongs to an unknown human species.
In 2025, a team of researchers confirmed that the Harbin skull, at least 146,000 years old, belongs to a Denisovan…
The world's smallest tattoo has been made on a tardigrade.
In 2025, researchers used electron beams to engrave dots on a thin layer of ice covering a tardigrade's body. The…
Italian cooking has been declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
In December 2025, UNESCO recognised Italian cooking as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, highlighting its…
The secret to a perfect cacio e pepe sauce lies in starch physics.
A team of Italian physicists won an Ig Nobel Prize in 2025 for studying the science of cacio e pepe sauce. They found…
The city of Peñico in Peru was built by the Inca civilisation.
Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady discovered in 2025 the city of Peñico, 3,800 years old, built by the Caral…
An unknown green photoprotein has been discovered in a marine organism.
Researchers identified a set of natural green photoproteins in the marine organism Velamen parallelum. These…
