Along the coastline of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a hidden underwater world lies just below the surface, as rich in geological marvels as it is the treasures...
Here’s another one for the ‘black holes are weird’ file: back in 2018, a team of mathematicians calculated that some black holes in an expanding Universe...
Exactly when and how our species reached the Americas remains a messy historical conundrum. A heated debate has now ensued amongst archeologists in the face of...
They first came to scientists’ attention about a decade ago: A mysterious field of glass fragments, scattered across Chile’s Atacama Desert, and aligned in a vast...
Sometimes, when we talk to our canine companions, they tilt their heads adorably to one side. Although a dog’s quizzical head cock might suggest incredulity or...
Originally, they were thought to be just specks of dust on a microscope slide. Now, a new study suggests that microchromosomes – a type of tiny...
Astronauts on the International Space Station grew chili peppers for the first time, which a NASA astronaut used for tacos to feed the crew. The seeds...
An asteroid about the size of a refrigerator shot past Earth last week, and astronomers didn’t know the object existed until hours after it was gone. ...
About 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year. The vast majority of cases (90–95 percent) will be type 2 diabetes, a chronic health condition...
Many numbers are swirling around the climate negotiations at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, COP26. These include global warming targets of 1.5°C and 2.0°C, recent...