Biology
Even small and voracious caterpillars have a big impact on global carbon emissions
Outbreaks of the caterpillar Lymantria dispar dispar and the caterpillar Malacasoma disstria occur at least every 5 years in temperate forests.
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Animal world
Discovered a new species of mole in the Central Highlands
The mole species discovered in Ngoc Linh mountain (Kon Tum) and the Central Truong Son area is about the same size as the Vietnamese mole rat, but significantly smaller…
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Americans rush to hunt prehistoric monsters
In the cold winter, many families from Wisconsin (USA) have a tradition of gathering on a lake in the hope of catching one of the giant fish beneath the ice.
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Found a diamond nested in a super rare 1,400 million year old diamond
A mining company has discovered a diamond within a super-rare diamond in western Australia, estimated to be thousands of millions of years old.
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Father makes his own medicine to save his terminally ill son in China
Not wanting to watch his son die, Xu Wei created a home lab in Kunming, China to make his own medicine.
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Varahamihira and the prediction of finding water on Mars 1,500 years ago
There is now a lot of scientific evidence that water exists in small reserves on Mars. This was predicted by Varahamihira - an Indian sage more than 1,500 years ago.
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A hybrid creature between 2 beasts 'hiding' on the seabed for 200,000 years
Scientists have found the remains of an ancient beast - a mysterious hybrid mammoth - in an unexpected place... in the deep sea.
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The strange 'cow village', no one knows how to walk, can only crawl on 4 legs
People living in this village cannot walk normally, they can only crawl on all fours and even children.
Archeology
Top 6 biggest mysteries about the great king Tutankhamun of Egypt have been solved
After nearly a century of research and investigation, archaeologists have deciphered 6 mysteries about Tutankhamun, the king famous for the curse of 'Egyptian mummies'
Oceanography
The beautiful crab is exactly like the Doraemon donut, but no one dares to eat it
Accordingly, just one small piece from this crab is enough to kill an adult!
Archeology
Excavating Cao Cao's grave, seeing a weapon lost for thousands of years, experts say: Treasure!
Experts excavating the tomb believed to belong to Cao Cao have found a strange weapon, which has been lost for thousands of years.
Archeology
The creepy mystery of the Iron Age skeleton buried in a strange position in the ancient castle
Researchers were stunned to discover an Iron Age skeleton buried in a sitting position at the ruins of Maiden Castle in the United Kingdom.
Archeology
Ancient human remains 120,000 years old: 4 months old is already 'superman'
The remains of ancient Neanderthals are mostly just fragments, but scientists got lucky when a baby's baby tooth was stillborn.
Space science
China develops 100 real-time remote sensing satellites
China is building its first real-time remote sensing satellite network with outstanding fast data transmission.
Space science
Small satellite the size of a shoebox changed the world
In the past 2 decades since its 'birth', a small satellite the size of a CubeSat shoebox has made a significant contribution to changing the world.