One million year old mammoth DNA more than doubles the previous record and suggests that even older genomes could be found.
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A new government report describes 144 sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena.
Researchers find that the coffee pulp is valuable in its own right.
Washing your hands with soap and water can help protect against the coronavirus. But only if you do it correctly.
The past ~4 billion years have been an incredibly successful, unbroken run for life on Earth. The future won’t be nearly so bright.
The UAE is the first Arab nation to send a spacecraft to the Red Planet.
Starling flocks, schools of fish, and clouds of insects all agree.
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]
How one startup plans to use “death rays” for good instead of evil.
Democritus also did not believe in free will but was still known as the “laughing philosopher.”
Planet Earth has been around for over 4.5 billion years, but humans? For 99.998% of our planet’s history, humans were nowhere to be found.
“Nothing but naked people: fat ones, thin ones, old, young…”
A new “evidence-based nature prescription program” will see patients spending time in the woods.
The rings are raining down onto the planet, and disappearing surprisingly fast. 4.5 billion years ago, our Solar System first formed. Protoplanetary disks, which all solar systems are thought to […]
Surrounding Earth is a powerful magnetic field created by swirling liquid iron in the planet’s core. Earth’s magnetic field may be nearly as old as the Earth itself – and […]
Imagine Heraclitus spending an afternoon down by the river…
In Sun-like stars, hydrogen gets fused into helium. In the Big Bang, hydrogen fusion also makes helium. But they aren’t close to the same.
Next time you listen to scary campfire stories, sit with a friend who has aphantasia.
Are “humanized” pigs the future of medical research?
And what can it teach us about our Solar System’s earliest days? In many ways, astronomy is unique among the sciences. In every other field, you have the ability to design […]
It’s like a little magnetic “nom, nom.”
A new study shows you should put down the toilet lid when flushing to avoid coronavirus and other illnesses.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
A leading British space scientist thinks there is life under the ice sheets of Europa.
Imagine poisoning your rival and yourself and giving only yourself the antidote.
The dream of zero resistance is closer than you may think. One of the biggest physical problems in modern society is resistance. Not political or social resistance, mind you, but electrical […]
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
The Hollywood blockbuster may have been right, if only 3.2 billion years off the mark.
Technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.
A meteorite that smashed into a frozen lake in Michigan may explain the origins of life on Earth, finds study.