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Flames have swept through over 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of Los Angeles County, killing at least 10 people and destroying more than 10,000 homes and other structures. Meanwhile, record-breaking low temperatures and heavy snowfall battered the East Coast and Midwest.
Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park. A new study suggests that future eruptions at Yellowstone will likely occur in the northeastern portion of the national park.
By studying the volcano's magma storage system, scientists have found that only one region on the northeast side of the national park is likely to erupt in the future.
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John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan, told Live Science that the moon's temperature can range from about minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit to over 212 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 100 degrees Celsius to over 100 degrees Celsius).
According to the tomb's inscriptions, the doctor — named Tetinebefou — held the title of "conjurer of the goddess Serget," a deity who was thought to provide protection from scorpion stings. This indicates the man was a specialist in poisonous bites, researchers say. He was also the "chief dentist," a title that the researchers say is exceedingly rare among archaeological records.
If you could travel back in time and prevent your grandfather from having children, you would erase your very existence. This so-called "grandfather paradox" is one of the main reasons why scientists have dismissed time travel as impossible. However, this issue may have been solved.
By combining general relativity, quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, Vanderbilt University physicist Lorenzo Gavassino has demonstrated how time travel might be feasible without these logical contradictions. The theory is based on one of the predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity, that there are paths through space-time that loop back on themselves.
Something for the weekend
If you're looking for something a little longer to read over the weekend, here are some of the best long reads, book excerpts and interviews published this week.
The pyramid-shaped mountain in Antarctica became internet-famous in 2016.
(Image credit: Google Maps)
An unnamed mountain in Antarctica has caught the eyes of conspiracy theorists due to its striking resemblance to the ancient Egyptian pyramids. However, the four symmetrical faces of this 4,150-foot-tall (1,265 meters) "pyramid" were not built by human (or alien) hands…
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