The weirdest thing about the 21 feet found near Vancouver since 2007? Foul play has been ruled out.
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It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.
Research sheds light on social behavior of these mysterious predators.
The spikes in their mouths would have helped them catch squid or fish.
The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.
The knobby starfish skeleton has diamond-like properties and could inspire new designs for lightweight, highly resilient ceramics, with widespread applications in engineering and construction.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
If the past is any guide, things are going to take off quickly.
In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.
How the search for alien life is taking place right here in our own Solar System. If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three […]
The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here’s what it could do to Earth.
The authors call it “wildly theoretical” — but let’s take a look, anyway.
Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.
Strange underwater icicles form in the Earth’s coldest regions and freeze living organisms in place.
Since our arrival, humans have driven a seven-fold drop in the mass of wild land mammals.
“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.
Out of sight, but not out of mind.
Imagine Flipper trained in the art of espionage.
Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.
The way that the ancient Megalodon adapted to water temperature has important implications for modern marine creatures.
For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
We know more about the universe than what is beneath our feet. But Earth’s mantle holds subtle clues about our planet’s past.
Finding out we’re not alone in the Universe would fundamentally change everything. Here’s how we could do it.
The largest moon in our Solar System, often overlooked, is a water-rich world. Does that mean life? Here on Earth, life took hold very early on in our planet’s history, and […]
On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
All across the Universe, planets come in a wide variety of sizes, masses, compositions, and temperatures. And most have rain and snow.
Learning to decode complex communication on Earth may give us a leg up if intelligent life from space makes contact.
These distant cousins of starfish live on sea floors around the globe.