A family in Texas found themselves doing damage control on Christmas Day after their 12-year-old son accidentally set their lawn on fire with a magnifying glass.

Pour some water into your glass of ouzo or pastis, and the beverage will change from transparent to milky: this is the well-known 'Ouzo effect'. But what will happen if you simply place a drop of ...

Climate archives under the magnifying glass Date: December 7, 2022 Source: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen Summary: How is the weather changing as a ...

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Astronomers in Hawaii have plucked unprecedented details from the life of an early galaxy using an unusually lucid gravitational lens coupled with the powerful 10-meter Keck II Telescope on Mauna ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — For more than a decade, NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn took "a magnifying glass" to the enchanting planet, its moons and rings. Cassini revealed wet, exotic ...

An international team of astronomers has detected over 40 individual stars in a galaxy located 6.5 billion light-years away. The discovery of more than 40 stars in a single galaxy is unprecedented ...

The results, like the magnifying glass, were less than perfect. Television soon exploded in both countries.

The film features a whimsical exploration of various insects, highlighting their unique characteristics and appearances through playful rhymes. A man with six legs interacts with these insects ...

"Lensing" galaxies are so huge that they act like magnifying glasses for the space behind them. Their gravity can bend and distort light from smaller galaxies further beyond. Now, scientists using ...