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Salt of the Earth: Israeli Artist’s Dead Sea Sculptures

Israeli artist Sigalit Landau wades into the warm, briny waters of the Dead Sea to inspect her latest creations -- everyday objects coated in salt crystals that glisten in the bright morning sun. The lowest point on Earth is also Landau's studio where she submerges objects -- from a ballet…

Asharq Al-Awsat

What created the continents? New evidence points to giant asteroids

Earth is the only planet we know of with continents, the giant landmasses that provide homes to humankind and most of Earth’s biomass.

The Conversation

This month’s supermoon will be the last of 2022. When is the Sturgeon supermoon and what is the best time to see it?

The Sturgeon Moon caps off four consecutive months of supermoons. Here's the best way to see August's fishy lunar event.

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Record Death Valley flooding ‘a once-in-1,000-year event’

Hundreds were marooned in the downpour as the climate crisis increases the likelihood of extreme weather

The Guardian - US

Giant meteor impacts created Earth’s continents

Analysis of minerals in rocks suggests that continents were formed through giant meteorite impacts

The Independent UK

Asteroids may have carved Earth's landforms as we know them — study

An out-of-this-world ingredient made Earth's continents.

Inverse

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Study finds evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents

The theory that the continents originally formed at sites of these collisions had been around for decades but with little evidence to support it.

The Independent UK

Driving out invasive species on islands has high success rate and big benefits – study

New research finds that eradicating non-native rats, cats, rabbits and goats is 88% effective in restoring biodiversity

The Guardian - UK

UK's oldest UFO sighting revealed as country's first ever 'X-file' is unearthed

Cromwell Mortimer jotted down a sketch of the mystery object and published it in the Philosophical Transactions, vol XLIII in 1746, which has just come to light for the first time

Daily Mirror

Olivia Newton-John's friends and neighbours remember late Grease star in her 'happy place'

Olivia Newton-John's lifelong friend, Northern Rivers residents and music industry legends remember the caring, "down to earth" star as someone who loved being involved with the community.

ABC News

Death Valley: A first-hand look at the flood damage

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif./Nevada — About 1.3 million people visit the hottest place on Earth each year. On Tuesday, just a handful were at Death Valley National Park.

Tribune News Service

Geocon's huge excavation pit idled as engineers ponder cause of major wall failure

All work has ceased at a Geocon building site in Phillip, where hundreds of tonnes of earth, steel and concrete rained down into an excavation pit.

The Canberra Times

Space to learn: On the failure of ISRO’s maiden small satellite launch vehicle mission

The failure of the SSLV does not have to be a demoralising lesson

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Get ready for the ‘sturgeon supermoon’

The full moon will appear bigger and brighter Thursday as its orbit brings it closer to Earth.

The Hindu

Explained | What went wrong with the ISRO launch of SSLV?

Why did the ISRO prefer a SSLV over the PSLV or GSLV? What was the designated function of the satellites on-board the vehicle?

Inverse

Aliens could move entire planets to send a math-based code to other civilizations

Planets could be stacked such that their orbits resonate in the Fibonacci sequence.

Inverse

A small robot on the ISS will practice performing surgery in space

A surgical tool currently in clinical trials will slice fake flesh in space — providing groundbreaking new tech for space-based medical emergencies.

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The Independent UK

How I persuaded my boyfriend to leave the New Heaven New Earth ‘cult’

A student at a top London university tells how her boyfriend got recruited by a South Korean-based sect, which is considered a cult by many

The Independent UK

Inside the South Korean ‘doomsday cult’ recruiting young Black Christians in the UK

Investigation: ‘You feel special, you get lost in it, you feel chosen and you start to believe in what they’re saying,’ ex-member says

Dublin Live

Final supermoon of 2022 to rise this week - and you might also see Saturn

Dubliners can catch a glimpse of the supermoon later this week

Inverse

You need to see Saturn at its closest and brightest this week

The planet will be in opposition, putting its rings and planet-sized moon Titan front and center.

Inverse

You need to watch the grittiest alien invasion movie on Netflix ASAP

This 2011 sci-fi flick is pure pulp, but it knows it and delivers a good excuse to eat popcorn.

Daily Mirror

NASA solves mystery of 'spaghetti' found on surface of Mars after wild theories spread

The space agency has concluded what the bizarre noodle-like substance is after a picture of it was beamed back to Earth by the Perseverance rover earlier this year

ABC News

Why Diane honoured her husband Michael's death with a natural burial

Michael was a man of the woods, so when he died, his body was not embalmed and he was placed — as he wished — into the earth just 1.5 metres deep.

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