Author: Daniel Tom

Archaeologists in Mexico recently discovered a 1,600-year-old skeleton of a lady with mineral-encrusted teeth and a purposely enlarged cranium, indicating she was a member of her society’s top class. “While archaeologists are used to finding malformed remains, the latest skeleton is one of the most “strange” ever discovered.   “Her cranium was enlarged by being…

Scientists are sometimes asked if they do new experiments in the lab or if they just keep doing the same ones over and over again because they know what the results will be. Most scientists do the first, but scientific progress also depends on doing the second and making sure that what we think we…

Reflective panels that were installed on the Moon by NASA’s Apollo missions in 1969 suggest that the Moon is currently moving away from Earth by 3.8 cm every year.     The Moon is the only celestial body other than Earth where humans have set foot on. We have explored the surface of the Moon…

Three asteroids will sail safely past Earth today, with one of them measuring up to around 400 feet wide—which is nearly as tall as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and taller than the Statue of Liberty. The first of the space rocks to fly by the Earth on September 14—dubbed 2020 RF3—has actually…

A team of archaeologists carrying out excavations prior to the construction of a single-family home in Saintes, southwestern France, has unearthed the skeletons of several individuals, including two women and two children, some with iron shackles around their necks, the ankles or wrists, according to the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) in a…

See fall’s best Messier objects   M74 Sergey Trudolyubov It’s been six months since astronomy clubs around the globe hosted events for the Messier marathon. The goal of this single-night observing challenge is to catch all 109 deep-sky objects in French comet-hunter Charles Messier’s famous catalog. Due to the way these celestial gems are positioned…

Welcome back to the FLUCTUS channel for a feature of the Gerald R Ford Class, the world’s biggest aircraft carrier at sea. With a full load displacement of 100,000t and the 78m-wide flight deck, this amazing warship has the capacity to carry more than 75 aircraft and accommodate 4,539 personnel, including the ship’s company, air…

The K2 Black Panther tank, which weighs 55 to 61 tons, strengthens the South Korean tank force that currently relies on the K1 and K1A1 tanks and the Russian-made T-80 in dealing with the advance of the North Korean army’s tank armor. Due to the presence of its neighbors to the north, South Korea must…

  The archaeological site of Kemune in the dried-up area of the Mosul reservoir[Credit: Universities of Freiburg and Tubingen, KAO] Iraq is one of the countries in the world most affected by climate change. The south of the country in particular has been suffering from extreme drought for months. To prevent crops from drying out,…

Basically, EC725 is the further development of Eurocopter AS532 Cougar, improving upon the design with a five-blade composite main rotor incorporating a new airfoil shape to reduce vibration levels.     Introduce The EC-725 Caracal helicopter, with an estimated cost of $ 20 million each, is an Airbus long-range tactical transport helicopter. As the newest…