Category: #Discoveries

Without the app, mapping reefs usually involves high amounts of data and low-quality photos, which leads to slow analysis Less than 1% of the ocean…

Its adorableness aside, the Mexican axolotl is a salamander of particular interest to scientists. On the molecular level, the animal seems to have a cheat…

42: the wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams is a forthcoming book, approved by Douglas Adams’s estate and family, that will explore the late author’s…

That 17th century pocket change — among the oldest ever found in North America — could explain how pirate Capt. Henry Every vanished into the…

Eighty million years ago, a large dinosaur curled up and died in what is today western Argentina. The dinosaur was a bipedal, meat-eating predator from the…

Asteroids that smash directly into Earth’s surface can cause extensive damage, but, as new evidence uncovered in east Antarctica suggests, asteroids that explode on entry…

Study finds testosterone associated with risk of developing potentially deadly skin cancer, but causation not proved Men with high levels of testosterone have an increased…

The rovers and orbiters studying Mars are being tasked with answering the persistent questions that remain about the Red Planet, decades after NASA sent its…

An unknown neurological condition is sickening and often killing young black bears in California and Nevada. The illness also seems to make the bears unafraid…

Two years ago, a PBS documentary video showed an octopus named Heidi in what appeared to be an active dream state. Her arms twitched as…

An entire lineage of French rabbits has been doing handstands for nearly a century. The acrobatic bunnies are not so much performing a stunt as…

Mural discovered last year is thought to depict a zoomorphic, knife-wielding spider god associated with rain and fertility Archaeologists in northern Peru have identified a…

In April 2019, the world was spellbound, if only for a moment, by an ominous void encircled by a half-halo of light. It was the…

Even after we die, some of our brain cells can experience one last and large momentary burst of life, new research out Tuesday suggests. The…

Sometimes, we give up on a species too soon. Just because it’s been a few decades or even centuries since a creature showed its face,…

Some 46,000 years ago in what is now the Polish highlands, a Neanderthal man got some food stuck between his teeth. So he did what…

Marine researchers in Japan and elsewhere have discovered yet another enigma of the aquatic world. In a new paper out Thursday, they detail their finding…

The rise of zombie fires is the latest iteration of climate horrors. The world became acquainted with them last summer when fires in Siberia that…

Researchers used thermal radiation data to find patterns in recent eruptions—providing another metric to help get ahead of a potentially deadly blast. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-can-help-detect-when-volcanos-about-to-blow/ Droolin’…

Scientists at the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina say their fat-tailed dwarf lemurs went into hibernation for the first time ever in captivity last…

A new study conducted by researchers at Yale and the University of Leeds suggests that lightning could have unlocked the phosphorus necessary for creating biomolecules…