“Whales, dolphins and seals, in the wild and under human care alike, are especially prone to gram-negative bacterial ...
Sauropods were peculiar animals with even more peculiar heads. Their skulls were tiny for their colossal bodies, built from ...
The oldest confirmed gunpowder firearm found in South Korea. Credit: Korea Heritage Service. In November 2023, troops ...
The excavation site of Göbekli Tepe with several circles of stone monuments. Credit: Lee Yu Kit. For years, the dead at ...
SpaceX's megarocket reached orbit and delivered its first real cargo. The engine that nearly stopped it is now NASA's problem ...
In a new study, researchers measured subtle variations in iron, titanium, and chromium isotopes in Bennu grains. Their ...
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger watched Mount Vesuvius erupt across the Bay of Naples, destroying the Roman cities ...
Enceladus is hardly an inviting place. It sits 1.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, covered by a thick frozen exterior. Yet ...
People strolling through Downtown McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Credit: Eli Duke/Wikimedia Commons. A small experiment involving Antarctic winterers found that months of intense social contact and ...
But the warming will persist for decades. A new study suggests that carbon dioxide released by the world’s biggest ...
Research into human-animal chimeras could have a therapeutic payoff, but the work brings up thorny ethical questions.