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Dianna Velez grew up in the Hudson Valley of New York. In 2003, she graduated from a public school, Pine Bush High School, where she cites listening to bands like Coheed and Cambria as her favorite pastime. As a high school student, she worked at a music and movie store, went to concerts, and had ne...

Botswana is a large source of diamonds, exporting around 17 million carats in 2020. Among the many Botswana diamonds, a very special one was discovered. Within the diamond was a new mineral, one that was only ever predicted in a lab setting, never found in nature. Named davemaoite, this new rock can...

The Ig Nobel prizes are the opposite of the Nobel prizes. The Nobel prizes celebrate genuine scientific, artistic, and humanistic achievements. While the Ig Nobel also celebrates human achievements, they tend to reward the more bizarre and silly endeavors out there. For example, in this year’s 31st ...

When you think of time travel, you think it’s only something you see in movies. It hasn’t been done and never will be. But, did you know we can look back in time? In the field of astronomy, many deep-space images are taken by a very famous telescope called the Hubble Space Telescope. Launched into s...

Recently, engineers at Caltech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies created a robot named Leonardo. Leo is a bipedal robot, meaning he has two legs and can walk. Well, walking isn’t all Leonardo can do, he can skateboard too. The robot’s unique design enables it to do a variety of activi...

In the White Sands National Park in Southern New Mexico, new evidence, reported in Nature magazine and originally published September 23 in Science Magazine, has been found to suggest that the first Americans could actually have arrived as early as 20,000 years ago. For a long time, archaeologists b...