Peacocks Have Lasers In Their Tails : ScienceAlert
Sharks with frickin’ lasers are tired news. Peacocks, apparently, are where it’s truly at. Famous for their dazzling…
90 Billion Liters of Water Punched Through Greenland’s Ice Sheet – And Nobody Noticed : ScienceAlert
A build-up of meltwater under the Greenland ice sheet in 2014 resulted in a flood of such magnitude…
Star’s Violent Death Could Reveal a Rare ‘Missing Link’ Black Hole : ScienceAlert
In a galaxy some 450 million light-years away, a brilliant flare of light revealed a probable black hole…
Yellowstone’s Aspen Forests Are Already Responding to The Return of Wolves : ScienceAlert
Aspen forest is reclaiming the skyline of Yellowstone National Park after decades of controversy over efforts to return…
Gold Does Something Unexpected When Superheated Past Its Melting Point : ScienceAlert
Gold remains perfectly solid when briefly heated beyond previously hypothesized limits, a new study reports, which may mean…
One Weekend Habit May Cut Risk of Heart-Related Death by 33%, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
We know that exercise has numerous health benefits, but does it matter how much you spread it out?…
Octopuses Fall For The Classic Fake Arm Trick – Just Like We Do : ScienceAlert
Octopuses can be fooled into thinking a fake arm is actually their own. When scientists in Japan pinched…
Bone-Eating Worms Have Lurked in The Ocean For 100 Million Years : ScienceAlert
Not content with a diet of old leaves, some worm species actually eat bones. A new study has…
Ancient Voice Box Finally Reveals How Dinosaurs May Have Sounded : ScienceAlert
Despite what the movies tell us, dinosaurs probably didn’t roar at their prey. It’s more likely that they…
NASA Is Watching a Huge Anomaly Growing in Earth’s Magnetic Field : ScienceAlert
For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic…
Surprise Cosmic Clouds Likened to Finding Ice Cubes in a Volcano : ScienceAlert
Astronomers have found 11 unexpectedly cold hydrogen clouds hiding in the superheated turbulence of the Fermi Bubbles, in…
This Could Be The First Witnessed Birth of a Supermassive Black Hole : ScienceAlert
Supermassive black holes represent one of the biggest head-scratchers in the Universe. These behemoths weighing millions to tens…