Science
Earth’s first major extinction event was worse than we thought and may have wiped out nearly 80% of species 550 million years ago
An analysis of food remains found in pottery dating back 5,000 to 8,000 years is changing what we knew about prehistoric European cuisine
Hubble captured a comet breaking apart in real time purely by chance, and the odds of seeing it happen at that exact moment were remarkably low
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
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
The AI analyzed 1,974 unclassified tracks and raised some very troubling questions about the “bird tracks”
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
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
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
Astronomers have detected, for the first time and in real time, a violent collision between two young planets located 11,000 light-years away
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
What these chimpanzees did with some pieces of glass suggests a story that began millions of years ago
Goodbye to dependence on critical metals: scientists create a new form of aluminum that defies what we thought was possible and could make the industry of the future more affordable













