50 years ago, U.S. drinking water sparked health and safety concerns
The discovery of potential cancer-causing agents in tap water led to the Safe Drinking Water Act — a law that continues protecting public health.
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El Ojo: The mysterious floating island in Argentina’s swampland that looks like a perfectly round eye
Argentina’s El Ojo is said to harbor UFOs and the ghosts of ancient deities, but as far as scientists can tell, the island is simply a fluke of nature that formed through erosion and water currents.
Earthquakes upped the death toll at Pompeii
Nearly 2,000 years ago, a huge volcano in southern Italy suddenly, explosively woke up. Ash and gas from the eruption killed at least 1,500 people in the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That event has gone down in history as…
Explainer: How volcanoes erupt
Some 640,000 years ago, a massive eruption rocked the land that, today, is Yellowstone National Park. The eruption spewed ash across much of the area that’s now the United States. It ejected 6,000 times the volume of the deadly 1980…
Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies .
Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead stars known as magnetars, a new study suggests.
‘Unique and extreme’: James Webb telescope detects possible alien world bubbling over with volcanoes
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a distant exoplanet.
A first look at rocks from the lunar farside create a volcanic mystery
Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.
Rare gladiator-shaped knife handle discovered by Hadrian’s Wall
It’s rare to find gladiator memorabilia from Roman Britain, but archaeologists by Hadrian’s Wall have just found a 2,000-year-old knife handle depicting a left-handed fighter.
Declassified spy satellite images reveal 1,400-year-old battle site in Iraq that set off the Muslim conquest
Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of al-Qadisiyyah.
James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious ‘red monster’ galaxies so large they shouldn’t exist
The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic “red monster” galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They’re so large they could rewrite the laws of galactic evolution.
