The Earth’s crust is constantly rewritten by volcanoes, erosion, and plate tectonics. New crust is being created while old ...
Credit: The Alamo Trust. Archaeologists at the Alamo have uncovered a rare intact cannonball likely fired during the 1836 ...
“When I’m watching birds, I’m not thinking about anything else — it’s a moment of peace and a way to reconnect with nature, ...
In 1950, two researchers noticed something that didn’t quite add up. Hector Chevigny, a writer who had lost his sight in adulthood, and psychologist Sydell Braverman were studying the psychological ...
Sleep is not just rest for the brain. It is maintenance for the whole body. A new and interesting study of about half a million adults found that people who slept around six to eight hours a night ...
A new experimental Alzheimer’s compound called FLAV-27 improved memory and reduced disease-like damage in worms and mice.
Fruit flies react strangely when gravity gets stronger. For humans, a fruit fly weighs almost nothing. Yet when scientists ...
The tablet known as Plimpton 322, dated to around 1800 BCE, contains 15 rows of numbers linked to Pythagorean triples ...
A new study suggests that about 59,000 years ago, someone used a small stone tool to drill into a badly decayed tooth, remove ...
Off the top of your head, how big do you think the biggest wind turbines are? A few dozen feet or meters? A hundred meters?
Vassily Kandinsky – Composition 8 (1923). This type of art often seems confusing or even random to the average viewer. Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many people, it’s just shapes and lines, ...
The National Interagency Fire Center predicts elevated wildfire potential across much of the West and many Southeast states ...