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Tsutomu Seki astronomer living in Kochi, Japan decided to name an asteroid that he found three decades ago as 'Reiwa' - coinciding with the country's new era.
A giant hole may have appeared every two years on the Martian atmosphere, sucking its entire ocean into space.
These big 'cats' can take down their prey without any help from their kind.
The Australian government has launched a plan to throw poisoned sausages from now until 2020 to destroy more than 2 million wild cats to protect local species.
150kg strange fish caught by fishermen on Co Chien River is Minh Hai, a fish that seems to be extinct in Vietnam.
It is the difference in brain structure, the perfection of the senses and the actual experience, that has led to many interesting differences about how to see the world…
In this May, the world celebrates 100 years of historical photos that created a turning point for humanity's physics and astronomy.
Where rainfall is only about 14mm / year, this bug has evolved to possess an impressive survival skill.
How can you observe a process that takes a billion times longer than the universe?
Like Medusa, Lamia is a lover of women with a bizarre shape between humans and snakes but possesses great beauty.
The reason given is that the environmental impacts that octopus will create.
A mature positive starfish can move at a rate of 1m per minute.
The moon is shrinking, creating surface folds and earthquakes - that is the conclusion published by the scientific community in the journal Nature Geoscience on May 13.
NASA plans to bring the first woman to the Moon by 2024 and this project is named Artemis.
Serrated mud snail is a kind of mud snail, Nassarius papilosus scientific name, contains tetrodotoxin, this is a toxin that damages the nervous system, more serious can…