There’s nothing quite like topping your favorite food with some ketchup, mustard, or mayo, but most of us don’t spend too much time thinking about how it’s made. Whether or not you were curious about the makeup of your favorite food topping, we’ve taken an in-depth look at the condiment chemistry that gives you these ...
If you’re like most homeowners, the dream vision of your basement space and its current reality are two different things. While you’ve got the square footage for that kid-friendly play area, workout spot, or stackable storage setup, concerns over water damage, mold infestation, insulation, and cost have you hesitant to do any upgrades. Perhaps the ...
Astronaut John Young was among the first men to walk on the Moon. He was NASA’s longest-serving astronaut and advocated for safety reforms after the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. John Young died on January 5 at his home in Houston, Texas. He was 87 years old at the time of his death. NASA announced ...
When you put out the recycling bin, do you stop to think about where your waste ends up? Would you be surprised to learn the answer, in most cases, is China? But now, China’s recycling ban threatens the entire recycling industry. For decades, shipping containers have been loaded with recyclable material and dispatched to China ...
China’s history is vast and very complex, and ghost stories are no exception. Explore the top seven haunted places in China as you step into 5,000 years of history and the ghastly past of China, from the wiles of eunuchs in Beijing to deserted mansions in Shanghai, and While some of the stories are groundless and ...
The Longyou Caves are a series of large artificial sandstone caverns located at Phoenix Hill, close to the village of Shiyan Beicun by the Qu River, Lingyou County, in China’s Zhejiang Province. The caves were discovered by local “farmers who were pumping water out of five small pools on a rough-flat ground in 1992.” These ...
While we read stories in the national media of a possible catastrophic eruption of the Yellowstone volcanic area, scientists are not so sure of the likelihood of such an event. In an effort to better understand the region’s subsurface geology, geologists are taking another look at geologic history. Geology professor Lijun Liu, who led the new research, has ...
On December 10, 1939, during the horrors of the Japanese aggression against the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), 2,988 Chinese soldiers were assigned to defend a bridge on the Yangtze River. By morning, the Chinese Nanking Battalion had simply vanished. Ready to fight The commander of the newly-arrived battalion was a ...
While exploring volcanic rocks on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, geologists made a discovery literally out of this world — mineral forms that have only ever been found in space. The minerals were thrown out from a 60 million-year-old meteorite impact, previously unknown to scientists. This makes it the first known meteorite impact designated within the British Paleogene ...
On a tiny Indonesian island, a large number of ancient cave paintings have been discovered. The island is called Kisar, which measures just 81 square kilometers, and was previously unexplored by archaeologists. Now, a team of researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have found a total of 28 rock art sites. The sites date ...
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