Category: Science
Mars Once Had So Much Water, It Could Have Been An Ocean World, Scientists Say
Today, Mars is colloquially known as the ‘Red Planet’ on account of how its dry, dusty landscape is rich in iron oxide (aka. ‘rust’). In…
Ancient Drains Under The Colosseum Reveal The Bones of an Unlikely Gladiator
Packs of sausage dogs might have been made to fight larger animals like bears or perform acrobatics in the Colosseum in ancient Rome, archaeologists have…
Tiny Bubbles of an Ancient Ocean Found Trapped Inside Rocks in New York
Scientists have found small pockets of seawater that have been trapped in rock for some 390 million years, a discovery that could significantly deepen our…
This May Be The Oldest Example of a Brain, And It’s Not What We Expected
A newly discovered brain in a 525-million-year-old arthropod fossil looks to be the oldest found so far – and it may have settled an ongoing…
Do You Need to Drink Eight Glasses of Water a Day? It’s Complicated
It’s unclear exactly where the myth that humans need to drink eight glasses of water a day came from – but we’ve probably all heard…
The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved
When electrons couple up, further quantum trickery makes superconductivity unavoidable. Normally, electrons can’t overlap, but Cooper pairs follow a different quantum mechanical rule; they act…
An AI Found an Unknown ‘Ghost’ Ancestor in The Human Genome
Nobody knows who she was, just that she was different: A teenage girl from over 50,000 years ago of such odd uniqueness she appeared to…
Study Attempts to Unravel The Best Ratio of Land to Ocean For Exoplanet Habitability
Earth is about 29 percent land and 71 percent oceans. How significant is that mix for habitability? What does it tell us about exoplanet habitability?…
We Just Got The Most Detailed View of an Exoplanet Atmosphere Yet – And It’s Active
WASP-39b, a gas giant about 700 light-years away, is turning out to be quite the exoplanetary treasure. Earlier this year, WASP-39b was the subject of…
10 Days After Its Launch, Orion Has Successfully Entered Lunar Orbit
NASA’s Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully. A little over a week after the…