This week on Break It Down: killer whales have been wearing salmon hats (again) and sucking out the livers of the world’s largest shark, 1.5-million-year-old
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It’s that time of year again when many turkeys will be adopting an unfortunate position at the dinner table, as is the fate for many
The question of what protons or neutrons are made up of has an apparently simple answer: quarks and gluons. However, when it comes to atoms’
The fossilized remains of a marine crocodile that is up to 12 million years old have been discovered. The fossilized croc is the youngest known
Iceland’s recent bout of volcanism is still going strong, with new imagery and drone footage showing the ongoing volcanic activity on the Reykjanes Peninsula in
Earth’s long history has seen an uncountable number of species come and go – but one of the most famous extinction events we know of
Obsidian is perhaps best known in its role as the dark black blade atop ancient spears and axes – but what if we wanted to
If you thought that the Milky Way was just your average run-of-the-mill galaxy, you’d be wrong. Turns out that it’s quite the freak and we
While you enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner this weekend, make sure you savor the turkey you’re about to overindulge in – these strange, gobbling creatures might
We all know the planet is warming way too fast, and we all know it’s going to have some pretty dire consequences. However, a new
Nearly 13,000 years ago, long before the Pilgrims arrived, mammoth hunters in North America were crafting eyed bone needles from the skeletal remains of foxes,
A new study has suggested we may be looking for the wrong kinds of signatures in our hunt for intelligent civilizations out there in the
It’s one of the most enduring questions that we humans have been asking ourselves throughout the ages: What makes for a happy life? Some argue
For close to 40 years, a simple little hypothesis has been quietly sitting in a corner of graph theory, minding its own business. Known as
Orcas have been up to all sorts of things in 2024 – from sinking boats to reinstating fashion trends, these super-intelligent marine predators often make
Humans like to think we’re unpredictable beings, to a certain extent, governed by free will emerging somehow from physical processes. Well, here’s one weird thing
