Why the sun has two giant holes, and what that means for Earth

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  • Two giant holes, 18 to 30 times the size of Earth, have appeared on the surface of the sun.
  • They could send 1.8 million mph solar winds toward Earth.
  • They're called coronal holes, which are cooler areas that don't glow as bright as others.

A NASA probe got slammed by a massive eruption from the sun — and caught it all on camera

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew through a massive CME and caught the whole thing on camera.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew through a massive CME and caught the whole thing on camera.

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

A tiny 'ice mouse' with teeth the size of sand grains survived some of the coldest temperatures when dinosaurs roamed the Earth

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A painting of Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis, a duck-billed dinosaur, with an insert of the tiny Sikuomys mikros, a shrew-like animal, that illustrates a scene from ancient Alaska during the Cretaceous Period.
Sikuomys mikros would have had to dodge much-larger dinosaurs when it foraged for food.

James Havens

A giant eruption from the sun could bring the Northern Lights as far south as New York, Chicago, and Portland overnight Monday and early Tuesday

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ribbons of green pink purple northern lights stretch across the night sky above homes and lights of a sprawling town
Northern Lights, also called aurora borealis, dance in the sky over Tromso, Norway.

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4 ways you're doing your laundry all wrong that are harming the environment

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A side by side photo of a man throwing clothes into his washer with an incredulous look on his face and an up close photo of microplastics on someones hand.
The way you're laundering your clothes may be adding more microplastics into the environment.

Maryna Terletska/Getty Images ; Alistair Berg/Getty Images

An invisible force surrounding Earth may be creating water on the moon

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A diagram shows areas where lunar water has been detected. The diagram shows clearly that there is more water near the poles of the moon.
A diagram shows areas where lunar water has been detected. Scientists think they've spotted a new way water could be made on the moon.

Li, et al., 2023

Did you have a severe case of COVID-19? Research suggests that Neanderthal genes could be to blame

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An employee of the Natural History Museum in London looks at model of a Neanderthal male in his twenties. Researchers say they've found a link between those with gene variations associated with Neanderthal ancestry and severe cases of COVID-19.

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Sea-ice levels in Antarctica at a 'mind-blowing' historic low

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A view of ice floes on Grandidier Channel as the floes melt due to global climate change in Antarctica on February 09, 2022
Ice floes melt due to climate change in Antarctica on February 2022.

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A nuclear bomb is still missing after it was dropped off the Georgia coastline 65 years ago

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A man stands near a large metal casing for the Mark-17 thermonuclear weapon
This casing of a Mark 17 thermonuclear bomb was manufactured around the same time as the lost Mark 15 weapon.

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The same family of bears won't stop wrecking trail cameras — and have been caught in the act 5 times on video

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An adult black bear and three subs in the woods walking towards camera.
The black bear and her three cubs at the scene of the crime.

Voyageurs Wolf Project

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