Today’s 7,600 languages might seem like a lot, but they're just a fraction that survived a vast, ancient extinction.
The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By ...
Schematic image showing sperm whales using bubbles while resting. Image purely for illustrative purposes. In one of the ocean’s strangest sleep routines, sperm whales can hang almost motionless in the ...
Mosses are among the oldest plants in the fossil record. This is even obvious from their lack of the plumbing that lets trees ...
Bruce McCandless II floating untethered. Image credits: NASA. On February 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II slipped out of space shuttle Challenger and became something no human had ever been before: a ...
For 25 years, one of the Milky Way’s strangest stellar explosions hid its culprit behind its own debris. Now the dust has ...
Geomorphology of the area surrounding Troy in the later phases of the Late Bronze Age. Bottom: Volunteer marine soldiers in ...
A bathroom at Emperor Hadrian’s villa has kept an engineering secret for nearly 2,000 years. Researchers studying concrete ...
Fabian A black hole does not simply vacuum up everything around it. Most of the time, even a supermassive black hole — an ...
Researchers have identified six giant landslides inside three impact craters, where ice and debris fell more than 2 ...
Of the 11,000 people belonging to this Papuan community, around 200 died each year. One in every ten people in the tribe was ...
A peptide is a short chain of amino acids, the same building blocks that form larger proteins. The human body produces millions of them, using them to carry messages, control hormones, regulate ...