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Scientists say aurora, caused by head-on collisions with Earth’s magnetic field, could damage critical infrastructure

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Credit: Harrison Haines from Pexels Auroras have inspired myths and omens for millennia, but only now, with modern technology that relies on electricity, do we appreciate their true power. The same forces that cause auroras also generate currents that can damage infrastructure that carries electricity, such as pipelines. Now scientists are writing in Frontiers in … Read more

Mysterious lunar vortices possibly caused by underground magma

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Mysterious Lunar Swirls Potentially Caused By Underground Magma

Lunar vortices are mysterious, light-colored, winding structures on the lunar surface that extend for hundreds of kilometers. These intriguing patterns, visible even from a backyard telescope, have for years defied a simple explanation. Recent research suggests that the swirls may be magnetized by invisible magmas beneath the moon’s surface. New insights into lunar vortices Recent … Read more

Tesco and Asda have filed a lawsuit over E. coli infections caused by sandwiches

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Lawyers say they are suing Asda and Tesco over an E. coli outbreak linked to lettuce leaves on sandwiches (Photo: REX/Shutterstock) Supermarkets Tesco and Asda are facing legal action after two people were hospitalized due to the E. coli outbreak linked to lettuce leaves. One of them was an 11-year-old girl from the Northwest, while … Read more

The atomic bomb-sized explosion in Russia may have been caused by a black hole

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A gigantic explosion that shook part of Russia more than a century ago has never been categorically explained. And yet, some scientists believe this could be the result of a very close encounter with a mysterious form of black hole. The extraordinary explosion occurred just after 7 a.m. on June 30, 1980, over the Podkamennaya … Read more

An interstellar cloud may have caused an ice age on Earth. Here’s how

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Scientists believe that Earth briefly lost protection from the sun about two million years ago and had to endure the extreme environment of interstellar space as the solar system passed through a dense cloud of gas and dust between the stars. At that time, early human ancestors shared our planet with prehistoric animals such as … Read more

Interstellar space clouds caused the ice ages, research suggests

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The Pleistocene Epoch – with its glaciers, woolly mammoths and Neanderthals – still looms large in Earth’s rearview mirror, having ended just 12,000 years ago. Now a team of researchers proposes that those hundreds of thousands of years of our planet’s history may have been cold due to a cloud in space that briefly removed … Read more

Tiny overlooked creatures may have caused an explosion of life on Earth

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About 480 million years ago, a dazzling assortment of the variety of flavors of life emerged on Earth. There has long been speculation about what causes this abundant radiation of new species, from asteroid dust or tectonic activity, to a rise in oxygen levels in the atmosphere. Now rocks from Maryland, USA, suggest an unlikely … Read more

The real ‘Star Trek’ planet was actually just an illusion caused by a ‘nervous’ star

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a mottled brown planet orbits a fiery orange star. thousands of stars dot the background

An extrasolar planet that has been compared to Spock’s homeworld of Vulcan in the Star Trek franchise may have been nothing more than an illusion caused by a jittery star. The extrasolar planet or ‘exoplanet’ (a term for a planet outside our solar system) was proposed to orbit a star called 40 Eridani A or … Read more

The Death of Vulcan: Research reveals that the planet is actually an astronomical illusion caused by stellar activity

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This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Artist’s concept of a previously proposed possible planet, HD 26965 b, often compared to the fictional “Vulcan” in the Star Trek universe. Credit: JPL-Caltech × close to Artist’s concept of a previously proposed possible planet, HD 26965 b, often compared … Read more