Science
A new study led by researchers at Dartmouth College proposes a method to enlist the help of immense populations of zooplankton in reducing atmospheric carbon. The plan is to convert … Read More
In 2018, NASA mission planners selected the Jezero Crater as the future landing site of the Perseverance rover. This crater was a natural choice, as it was once an ancient … Read More
A worn-down leopard seal tooth (#CN47208, Lot 303). Credit: Sandee Oster Waterfall Bluff Rock Shelter (WB) (Eastern Cape Province (ECP), South Africa) contains archaeological deposits demonstrating persistent and continuous human … Read More
There is a moment that Emily Cooper plays over repeatedly in her mind. In the autumn of 2021, her son Alexander, then aged three, stole a packet of chocolate buttons … Read More
And next time, the retrieval crews will be hoping for a bigger catch. Breaking Things There’s always something you can learn from failure. Sometimes failure looks like your rocket blowing … Read More
Scientists have made a satisfying and intriguing physics discovery some 16 years after it was first predicted to be a possibility: a quasiparticle (a group of particles behaving as one) … Read More
The Geminid meteor shower is peaking this weekend, providing a little pre-holiday skywatching fun. In years with good conditions and little cloud cover, the Geminids can be one of the … Read More
Scientists have proposed a new form of ancient humans. The Juluren, or “large head people,” reportedly lived in eastern Asia over 100,000 years ago. Paleoanthropologists Xiujie Wu and Christopher Bae … Read More
In case dark matter didn’t seem mysterious enough, a new study proposes that it could have arisen before the Big Bang. Conventional thinking goes that the Big Bang was the … Read More
A groundbreaking study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on November 26, 2024, suggests that Uranus and Neptune may conceal vast oceans beneath their atmospheres. These … Read More
