Researchers have analyzed 136 weapons using carbon-14 dating and have been able to pinpoint exactly when the bow-and-arrow era began in North America
What does a shrinking ice patch have to do with one of history’s biggest hunting upgrades? A new study in PNAS Nexus, published March…..
They heated them to 900°C (1,652°F) for 8 hours, and something unexpected happened: the rice husks and palm fronds barely formed the dreaded “rocks” that clog boilers… and Colombia might have a more reliable rural fuel than we thought
After a harvest, rice mills and palm oil plants are left with mountains of husk and hard shells, and too much of it still…..
The folds in a 180-million-year-old rock hold a story that baffles scientists
Cannibalism is decimating blue crab larvae, but shallow waters still offer them a chance
Science
Researchers have analyzed 136 weapons using carbon-14 dating and have been able to pinpoint exactly when the bow-and-arrow era began in North America
What does a shrinking ice patch have to do with one of history’s biggest hunting…..
They found a giant tooth embedded in the neck of a plesiosaur, and the “culprit” was not a marine reptile, but a massive predatory fish
In a drawer at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, scientists found what amounts to…..
The AI analyzed 1,974 unclassified tracks and raised some very troubling questions about the “bird tracks”
What if the first solid clue that birds existed was not a bone, but a…..
What they observed over the course of 90 minutes in the branches of a tree in the midst of a storm seems straight out of a science-fiction novel: 41 ultraviolet flashes invisible to the human eye and a major unanswered mystery
Thunderstorms already have a lot going on. Now researchers say there is another layer to…..
NASA observes the Sahara from the International Space Station and detects a gigantic eye nearly 50 kilometers wide, whose origin is not as cosmic as it seems
NASA Earth Observatory has spotlighted one of the Sahara’s most recognizable sights, the Richat Structure…..
Twenty-two giant blocks from the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria have been recovered from the seabed, and this discovery is rewriting the history of one of the world’s most famous wonders
A team working in Alexandria’s Eastern Harbor has lifted 22 enormous stone blocks linked to…..
The folds in a 180-million-year-old rock hold a story that baffles scientists
Strange wrinkle patterns in rock layers in Morocco’s Central High Atlas Mountains are being read…..
Astronomers have detected, for the first time and in real time, a violent collision between two young planets located 11,000 light-years away
A distant star has been acting like a porch light, dimming in bursts and then…..
Scientists reveal a new class of hellish planets with a permanent ocean of magma
Astronomers led by the University of Oxford say they have identified an exoplanet that does…..
Scientists have identified a tiny creature, just 0.06 inches long and 200 million years old, hiding in an ancient burrow in Greenland; it lived at a time when dinosaurs already ruled the Earth
How much can one tiny tooth really change the story of mammals? A team in…..
Mobility
India is inaugurating its first “red road” to save wildlife, and the trick is not fences or speed cameras, but a surface that forces drivers to slow down almost without realizing it.
If you have ever slammed the brakes because a deer, boar, or stray dog suddenly appeared in…..
A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after George H. W. Bush returns from the Atlantic after completing key maneuvers, and the maneuver once again puts the spotlight on a decisive phase before deployment
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush has been spotted returning to Naval Station Norfolk in…..
Energy
Economy
A zoo in the United States is building a $46 million African savanna, and the most striking feature isn’t the giraffes or the rhinos, but a hotel with a direct view of the habitat
Plans are taking shape for a major expansion at Wichita’s Sedgwick County Zoo that could…..
The 5,200 holes dug into a mountain in Peru are no longer a mystery, and the explanation changes what we knew about their ancient economy
For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian…..
It’s very rare to see so much gold in one place: gold bars and nearly 1,000 coins are being auctioned off in France, with a total value exceeding 2 million
In Angers, France, more than €2 million (roughly more than $2.3 million) in gold bars…..
It’s not about lithium or batteries: the problem driving up the cost of electric cars and wind power might lie in a tiny magnet, and a new AI has already found a way to do without rare earth elements
What if one of the biggest obstacles to cleaner cars and cheaper wind power is…..
What they have discovered in the Andes Mountains, between Argentina and Chile, is not just any mine, but a colossal deposit containing up to 84 billion pounds of copper, tens of millions of ounces of gold and silver, and a potential that is already revolutionizing the market
A copper, gold, and silver find in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border is drawing…..
Russia intercepts a 2.8-ton fragment of the Aletai meteorite, valued at $4.2 million, which was being smuggled out of the country disguised as a simple garden ornament
Customs officers in Russia say they stopped a 2.8 ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite…..
Another theme park goes bankrupt and closes its doors “forever”: what has happened in recent weeks is more serious than it seems
Is Brean Theme Park really gone for good? Not exactly. The Somerset attraction entered liquidation…..
The battle for Panama’s ports is entering a new phase, and China has issued a stern warning
Most people will read this as another chapter in the power struggle around the Panama…..
Australia has just discovered the largest iron deposit ever recorded, weighing 5.7 billion tons, and the most impressive thing is not its size, but its age
This is not a story about a brand-new mountain of iron suddenly appearing in Australia……
A popular Alaska cruise line suddenly closes and cancels all future cruises, leaving reservations, refunds, and questions about what happened just before the season began up in the air
A cruise line known for taking travelers into quieter corners of Southeast Alaska has shut…..
Environment
El Niño could return as early as May through July 2026, and the latest official forecasts point to a possibility that has many experts on alert
After several record-warm years, scientists are keeping a close eye on the tropical Pacific. New…..
They tried to slow down the advance of the Sahara with millions of bees… and they “melted” at over 70 °C. However, the solution that works is not biology, but geometry on the ground
In one of the harshest corners of the planet, the Sahara Desert has quietly put…..
A pesticide that has been in use for decades may be causing wild fish to age from the inside out, even at doses so low that they do not kill the fish immediately
A pesticide doesn’t have to kill fish outright to do real damage. New research suggests…..
No one understood what that strange green creature was that washed up on a Texas beach on March 7, until they discovered it was one of the rarest turtles in the world
Beachgoers on Pirate’s Beach on Galveston Island, Texas, got a shock on March 7, 2026,…..
A study published on December 17, 2025, on mangroves in the Colombian Caribbean reveals that small crabs measuring just 1.2 inches can accumulate up to 13 times more microplastics than the mud and convert some of them into nanoplastics
Microplastics are turning up in places most people never see, like mud under mangrove roots……
Between 1997 and 2006, the Galápagos Islands launched an operation that was as extreme as it was surprising to save their giant tortoises: they removed more than 140,000 invasive goats using helicopters, GPS, and a strategy that was as unusual as it was controversial
The Galápagos giant tortoise is one of those animals almost everyone recognizes, tied to Charles…..
Cannibalism is decimating blue crab larvae, but shallow waters still offer them a chance
If you love a summer crab feast, it’s easy to picture blue crabs as the…..
Sea levels are rising at a rate not seen in 4,000 years, and China’s major coastal cities are already on the front lines
Sea levels are climbing at a pace scientists say is unmatched in at least the…..
