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The night parrot—a brilliantly colored, nocturnal bird—once thrived in Australia’s outback. The arrival of colonists and feral predators, however, brought about an almost catastrophic decline in the species’s population in the late 19th century. In fact, the vibrant, green parrots were believed to be extinct for roughly a century, until one of them was found in western Queensland in 1990. While that was heartening for scientists, there was one problem: The specimen was dead. Then, another dead night parrot was identified 16 years later. It wasn’t until 2013 that a naturalist found a small, living population in southwestern Queensland. Since then, the species’s known popu…

ASM.orgASM Agar Art Contest | OverviewHave you ever seen art created in a petri dish using living, growing microorganisms? That's agar art! ASM's annual Agar Art Contest is a chance for you to use science to show off your creative skills.

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Nearly 300 years after the last execution, Scotland has created an official tartan to memorialize the thousands of people -- overwhelmingly women -- who were persecuted and executed under the Scottish Witchcraft Act between 1563 and 1736. Created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign, the tartan serves as a "living memorial" to honor victims who were falsely accused of conspiring with the devil during Scotland's witch hunts. The design emerged after the duo struggled to find a suitable location and funding for a physical monument, eventually finding inspiration at a tartan exhibition that sparked the idea of creating a wearabl…

VICEScientists Finally Solved the Weird Mystery of the Boomin...For centuries, something beneath Seneca Lake in upstate New York has been making a very loud, very disturbing noise. Locals called it the “Seneca Guns,” a cannon-like boom that erupted without warning

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by Dagomar Degroot In May 2024, part of the Sun exploded. The Sun is an immense ball of superheated gas called plasma. Because the plasma is conductive, magnetic fields loop out of the solar surface. Since different parts of the surface rotate at different speeds, the fields get tangled. Eventually, like rubber bands pulled too tight, they can snap – and that is what they did last year. These titanic plasma explosions, also known as solar flares, each unleashed the energy of a million hydrogen bombs. Parts of the Sun’s magnetic field also broke free as magnetic bubbles loaded with billions of tons of plasma. These bubbles, called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, crashed t…

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