Few geological mysteries are as perplexing as the ‘Great Unconformity‘ riddle at the Grand Canyon: More than a billion years of missing rock layers that for...
The possibility of time travel has excited many of us for hundreds of years, inspiring countless books and films. The ability to move not only through...
Ever since humans first started refining metals – roughly 5,000 years ago – people have been unknowingly breathing, ingesting, and absorbing tiny particles of lead byproducts...
There’s something strange about the near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon: It brightens up as it approaches the Sun, despite not having any reserves of ice that would...
The strength and direction of Earth’s magnetic field has changed a lot over the millennia. Scientists are eager to study its past patterns to work out...
The human mind is more resistant to the march of time than conventional wisdom suggests. Like a fine wine, some parts even get better with age....
What is the baby lion’s name in Disney’s The Lion King? If you feel sure that you know it, and it is on the verge of...
Gravity is the weird, mysterious glue that binds the Universe together, but that’s not the limit of its charms. We can also leverage the way it...
“Mamama,” “dadada,” “bababa” – parents usually welcome with enthusiasm the sounds of a baby’s babble. Babbling is the first milestone when learning to speak. All typically...
Women receiving treatment for psychosis should be okay to keep taking their meds if they fall pregnant, according to a new study that followed hundreds of...