The devil works fast, but citizen scientists are definitely faster when it comes to turning data from the Juno mission into beautiful images. The NASA
Tis the season to get vaccinated! We in the Northern Hemisphere are rapidly approaching the shortest day of the year, and that means it’s time
For the first time since 1970, members of the endangered Southern Resident population of orcas have been spotted in Penn Cove, a region off the
When giant ice sheets that once covered the tropics melted, they produced what paleoclimatologists call a “plumeworld ocean”, for which we now have direct evidence.
Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? The US military’s top secret X-37B space plane has just pulled off a bunch of
When we are vulnerable, words matter, and there are few circumstances where we are more vulnerable than when it comes to our health. The last
At this cave in North Africa some 15,000 years ago, a human was buried alongside an “unusual and special” medicinal plant: Ephedra, a humble shrub
A woman depicted in the section of the Sistine Chapel relating to Noah’s flood has one healthy breast and one showing signs of disease. A
There’s no denying that some species are impressive thanks to certain body parts (behave). From the long neck of a giraffe to the impressive (albeit
Every now and then, one of the robots on Mars sends back a picture of an unusual rock it has found on its journeys. After
We’ve heard it all before: getting more sleep is good for us in all sorts of ways. It’s not always easy to hit the magic
A robot has delved into the radioactive ruins of Fukushima to retrieve a tiny chunk of spent nuclear fuel. It’s the first time solid fuel
A series of ancient drawings at a Palaeolithic site in Germany appear to show fish caught in nets, suggesting that the use of this fishing
The undeniable face of Andean bears is the one and only Paddington, but while everyone’s favorite fictional marmalade fiend thrives, the number of his real-life
Humans have been communicating about their experiences and reality for millennia – it just wasn’t written down in ways we would recognize today. Source link
In 1987, a terrible accident unfolded in Goiânia, Brazil, where a radioactive capsule had been abandoned. People later found what they believed to be scrap
Gender stereotypes can be conveyed in ways that go beyond visual and linguistic expressions, new research has shown. It seems that sound and music play
