Have you ever noticed that new car tires are covered in rubbery, stubbly hairs? Don’t believe the rumors: they’re not for noise reduction or indicating
We tend to think of prehistoric life as hard. Brutal, even. Devoid of pleasure, outside of the odd mammoth steak or math class. But that
A new satellite imagery technique allows scientists to see plastic on beaches from space. The technique can identify differences in how sand, water, and plastic
NASA’s planetary defense telescope Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) has burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere, ending 10 years of searching for and
The chemical properties of two of the heaviest synthetic elements, moscovium and nihonium, have been established for the first time. Moscovium is now the heaviest
In 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster led to the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history. It was a disaster for
An old mystery involving the tape recording of an unknown song has finally been solved by internet sleuths, nearly four decades after it began. The
The Earth’s magnetic field is why we are here today. It protects life from harmful radiation from the Sun and many other cosmic events. It
For the first time ever, two black-footed ferret kits have been born to a cloned endangered animal. The mother is a ferret named Antonia who
When did humans start “putting pen to paper” and expressing their thoughts through a series of complex symbols? An important piece of the puzzle might
When eating steak, you get a lot of options available to you. As well as choosing the sauce, you can select how well cooked you’d
After decades of failed attempts, scientists have finally succeeded in coaxing animal cells into photosynthesizing. So far, the researchers have only managed to achieve the
Colossal changes to ocean circulation have caused the waters of the North Atlantic to become significantly saltier in the past 50 years when compared to
When Earth and the hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis pass by each other in five years’ time, the passage through Earth’s gravitational well could reshape the
Does fungus think? A curious new study from researchers at Tohoku University and Nagaoka College has provided food for thought, as it showed that the
US federal authorities are investigating after the partial remains of a dolphin were discovered lying on a New Jersey beach. On Wednesday, October 30, the
Deaf male mosquitos don’t mate – that’s the finding of new research that tinkered with the little flies’ genes to understand the importance of hearing
