Thousands of satellites and debris fragments could act as a distributed sensor network, revealing how the thermosphere ...
New research suggests fine dust trapped heat from falling debris, producing a deadly pulse that could have ignited forests around the world.
Under the dense canopy of southwestern Amazonia, laser-equipped aerial surveys have revealed a vast engineered landscape of ...
Simply put, some artifacts don’t seem to fit. For instance, take this silver-gilt vessel made with metal traced to Iran. It’s ...
This is the first somewhat informed picture of what a baby T. rex was like. It comes from the first fossils identified as ...
But it can make the world seem a bit blurry on the edges. The condition is called astigmatism, and it changes how the eye ...
Long before Stonehenge rose above Salisbury Plain, one of its stones may have begun an extraordinary journey inside a glacier. The Altar Stone, a slab of sandstone lying near the monument’s center, ...
Summer is supposed to refill the body’s vitamin D stores. Surely, especially in the midst of these heat waves, all that ...
About 1.43 million years ago, eight upright figures waded across a muddy margin of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Their feet sank among the tracks of hippos, antelope and wading birds. Then gentle ...
In one of the ocean’s strangest sleep routines, sperm whales can hang almost motionless in the water like giant living ...
For 25 years, one of the Milky Way’s strangest stellar explosions hid its culprit behind its own debris. Now the dust has ...
Today’s 7,600 languages might seem like a lot, but they're just a fraction that survived a vast, ancient extinction.
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