Category: Science
Japan’s Moon Lander Sends Home Bittersweet Image of Its Current View
Japan’s Moon lander has sent back its first images of the lunar surface, showing a gray, rubble-covered world in incredible detail. Beautiful as it is,…
Dark-Age Skeletons Uncovered With Buckets on Their Feet And Rings Around Their Necks
Archaeologists discovered human remains ceremonially adorned with buckets on their feet and rings around their necks in a 1,000-year-old cemetery, reports say. Archaeologists discovered the…
‘Landmark Discovery’: Hubble Detects Water Vapor in Smallest Exoplanet to Date
The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the smallest planet outside our solar system to contain water vapor in its atmosphere, a “landmark discovery” that brings…
One Protein Helps 75% of Cancers to Spread – And We May Have a Way to Stop It
The protein MYC is part of healthy cell activity, but when cancer cells develop, it goes haywire – going outside of its normal, carefully controlled…
Scientists Just Discovered a New Type of Magnetism
“The very reason that we have magnetism in our everyday lives is because of the strength of electron exchange interactions,” said study coauthor Ataç İmamoğlu,…
World First Partial Heart Transplant Is Growing With a Baby
The first baby to undergo a partial heart transplant will hopefully be spared repeated heart surgeries as the implanted tissue is growing with him –…
Do You Live in a ‘Blue Zone’? Here’s Why You Might Live Longer For It
Ageing is an inevitable part of life, which may explain our strong fascination with the quest for longevity. The allure of eternal youth drives a…
There’s a Surprisingly Simply Reason Why Some Kids Learn to Talk Earlier
The first four years of human life are critical for language development, and yet the speed at which children learn to talk is highly variable….
Hell Chicken Discovery Could Tell Us Just How Doomed The Dinosaurs Were
Were dinosaurs already on their way out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, ending the Cretaceous, the geologic period that started about…
Something Strange Happens to Wolves Infected by Infamous Mind-Altering Parasite
A study of 26 years’ worth of wolf behavioral data, and an analysis of the blood of 229 wolves, has shown that infection with the…