No one was injured at the home in Germany, but the ESA is investigating. The bright object traveled over at least five countries. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The European Space Agency (ESA) is investigating a bright fireball that lit up the early evening sky across at least five countries on March 8th. At around 5:55 p.m. local time, residents across Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands spotted a glowing object soaring across the sky for an estimated six seconds before disintegrating into multiple fragments.

Why are languages spoken at different speeds? Japanese speakers fire off syllables at lightning speed--what gives? At 6.19 syllables per second, English is one of the slower languages out there. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Have you ever switched audio language halfway through a movie?

It was an exciting start to my early morning when I was able to witness the agility and effort of a pair of hares boxing. They were so close that I could hear the puffs and pants as they performed in front of me. As the activity became more intense, fur was lost, and I loved how it stayed on top of the hare's head throughout this frenetic time. So intent were they to win the battle of wills they ignored my presence lying on the ground in plain sight. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week.

Who hid the 409 rubles during the Russian Revolution remains a mystery. Most of the coins are 10-ruble gold pieces minted prior to the Russian Revolution. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A remarkable trove of Russian history is finally seeing the light of day after spending nearly 110 years hidden underground. While surveying a historic home in the small town of Torzhok about 135 miles northwest of Moscow, archaeologists discovered a clay container filled with 409 gold coins buried beneath the structure's foundation.

An artist's impression of 3I/ATLAS is shown as it passes near the Sun, illuminating one side of the comet. On the side of the comet closer to the sun, the methanol gas is shown in blue, with icy dust grains still present in the gas. On the dark side of the comet, the hydrogen cyanide is shown in orange. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The comet 3I/ATLAS is well on its way back into deep space, but the famous cosmic visitor continues to fascinate astronomers.

Like many of us, the bugs have been hunkered down waiting for spring to return. CDC/ James Gathany; William L. Nicholson, Ph.D. (left). Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. With days to go until the official first day of spring, it was a tale of two winters in the continental United States. Colorado's mountains had record low snow levels, while Salt Lake City and Phoenix were among the cities who had their highest winter temperatures on record .

The inkless device works a bit like a printing press. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Lego kits have become impressively intricate over the years, but the company really outdid itself with a 2079-piece typewriter in 2021. Part of its Ideas series, the brickmakers released the fully functioning mechanical keyboard. It's a unique and extremely well designed set, although not without its limits.

Jackdaw chicks learn not to sweat the small stuff. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. How do chicks learn safe bird calls from ones that mean possible imminent death? According to new research, jackdaw (two species of bird in the genus) chicks listen to their elders--but there's also an evolutionary instinct at play. In a study recently published in the journal, researchers played the sound of predator calls paired with adult jackdaw alarm calls or the neutral adult jackdaw contact calls to 20 to 30-day-old jackdaw nestlings across 39 wild nests in southwestern England.

Environment Conservation Ocean Florida can't decide if its official saltwater mammal is a dolphin or a porpoise They are not the same animal. Dolphins (right) are more common in Florida, while porpoises (left) are spotted much less frequently. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. States have a surprising number of official symbols . While most people would expect them to have an official motto, seal, and flag, there can also be a state beverage, muffin, soil, fossil, and poem, to name a few.

From chirps to'hellos': Why some birds talk like people Brains, bonds, and a strange voice box help some birds mimic our speech. Budgies (which is short for budgerigar) are actually a specific kind of parakeet. These birds are excellent communicators. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In 1995, a California parakeet earned the Guinness World Record for having the largest human vocabulary among birds.