Ocean storms under Antarctic ice found to rapidly boost melting
Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of…
Dinosaur eggshells are accurate timekeepers of fossil age, study finds
Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each…
AI uncovers Earth’s earliest life from 3.3 billion years ago
Deep in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, traces of ancient life still linger, even when every cell has…
Oldest RNA ever discovered offers a rare look into the lives of woolly mammoths
Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick…
10,000-year-old impact crater in China reveals meteorite strike equal to 40 atomic bombs
A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far…
Neanderthal DNA sheds new light on the structure of the modern human face
Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and…
Decades old T. rex debate ends with stunning discovery
When you look at a fossil on display, you may envision the world 66 million years ago. You…
Early humans started making and using tools 2.75 million years ago
Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone…
Scientists discover a stress clock in the brain that ticks every hour
Stress is not simply a response to acute stressful episodes. It occurs in the brain where a natural…
A flash of light just redefined what we know about matter
A flash of light hits a simple iron crystal. In the space of a trillionth of a second,…
The universe is not and could never be a simulation, study finds
Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to…
Mayan astronomers built a 700-year-long eclipse calendar centuries before telescopes
More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping…