By Olivia Day for Daily Mail Australia 10:29 07 Jul 2024, updated 10:49 07 Jul 2024 A three-year-old girl with an aggressive form of cancer that was “attacking” her bone marrow showed only one symptom before diagnosis: she walked with a painless limp. Tori Ziebell now wants to raise awareness about the rare symptom that … Read more
By Olivia Day for Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:29 EDT, July 7, 2024 | Updated: 05:49 EDT, July 7, 2024 A three-year-old girl with an aggressive form of cancer that was “attacking” her bone marrow showed only one symptom before diagnosis: she walked with a painless limp. Tori Ziebell now wants to raise awareness about … Read more
While none of the interplanetary missions have found traces of life on Mars, both the Viking and China’s Zhurong rovers have discovered astonishing features of the Red Planet that could provide insight into its history and evolution. When Zhurong, China’s first-ever Mars landing mission, orbited the Red Planet for a year, it saw something surreal … Read more
There is no sight in the universe as dazzling as the moon, but medieval lore says that the radiant beauty also possessed mystical powers. In European mythology, people believed in a myth that a full moon could turn people into werewolves. The Greek philosopher Aristotle and the Roman historian Pliny the Elder suggested that the … Read more
Unlike “black holes,” which pull in and swallow surrounding cosmic matter, a “gravity hole” pushes surrounding material away due to the lack of gravity. When formed in an ocean, a gravity hole pushes water away and creates air pockets where water should have been, causing sea levels to drop. Take the example of the world’s … Read more
NASA’s Viking was the first American spacecraft to land on Mars, sending back images of craters, massive volcanoes and giant canyons from its surface. In the 1970s, NASA launched two identical robots — Viking 1 and Viking 2, each equipped with landers and orbiters — to the Red Planet. After the mission, NASA reported that … Read more
The closer you look at the universe, the more mysterious it seems. NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission recently revealed bizarre C- and X-shaped structures floating in the electrified layer of the ionosphere. “Who knew Earth’s upper atmosphere was like alphabet soup?” NASA wrote about the sighting on its website. The … Read more
Sonic X Shadow Generations It’s the early 00’s. I finally have a copy of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle on the GameCube, after spending an all-nighter with friends to beat the first game in one sitting. I’m wearing my emo baggy jeans. Linkin Park is playing in the background. Except that I’m playing Sonic X Shadow … Read more
Grenades have fascinated humans for millennia. The ancient Egyptians decorated their jewelry with garnets, and the Greeks called them “lamp stones” because they believed they could help them see in the dark. Recently, crystallized garnet particles have highlighted a fascinating geological link between Australia and Antarctica, uncovering an ancient Antarctic mountain range now under ice. … Read more
There is rarely a mountain as majestic as the Himalayas, which rise so high into the sky that people feel like a dot standing in front of them. But it is a lesser known fact that the Himalayas are not only scenic but also a field considered important for the study of geology. A 2023 … Read more