Lorne Cook, AP
An intact German World War I submarine containing the bodies of 23 people has been found off the coast of Belgium, authorities said Tuesday.Western Flanders Governor Carl Decaluwe told The Associated Press that the find on the floor of the North Sea "is very unique."
Alexandra Witze, Nature
A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck central Mexico on 19 September, killing more than 100 people and reducing buildings to rubble in the states of Puebla, Morelos and Guerrero, as well as Mexico City. The event came 12 days after a magnitude-8.1 tremor hit off the state of Chiapas Mexico's largest quake in more than a century and 32 years to the day after the country's most damaging tremor, an 8.0, killed thousands.
Ryan Mandelbaum, Gizmodo
Thunderclouds rolled into the Japanese beach town of Uchinada early one December morning in 2015. The scientists expected the storms; they'd staked out the location specifically for studying something normally only seen by satellites. Sometime after 5am, a flash of lightning struck a wind turbine. And along came a more perplexing weather phenomenon, too: The thunderstorm turned into a particle accelerator and blasted gamma radiation at the ground.
Jen Viegas, Seeker
Jean Twenge has been researching generational differences for 25 years. Of late, she started to notice that today's teens aren't dating and holding down jobs as much as they used to in past decades.She's not alone in making such observations, which have sparked spirited online debates about their implications.
Ethan Siegel, Forbes
Since humanity first turned our gaze skyward, we've realized that the cosmic story of our existence our origins, all that exists today, and what our ultimate fate is is literally written across the Universe. Our understanding of what our Universe truly is, what it's made up of, and how it came to be this way has improved dramatically every time we've built better instruments to probe the stars, galaxies, and the depths of space in new ways.
