Indigenous communities in southern Brazil hunted large whales 5,000 years ago
The first clue sits in a museum drawer, not on a windswept Arctic shore. It is a whale…
Why triceratops and other horned dinosaurs evolved such massive noses
The skull of Triceratops looks almost exaggerated, as if someone enlarged the front half without adjusting the rest.…
Event Horizon Telescope captures magnetic turbulence flickering at the edge of black hole M87*
For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The…
Scientists reveal how quantum electron spin can create magnetism
At the smallest scales of matter, nature behaves in ways that feel almost counterintuitive. Individual particles follow simple…
773,000-year-old Moroccan cave fossils reveal human and neandertal evolutionary split
A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest…
Warming ice awakens microbes that could speed climate change
Across the coldest places on Earth, something quiet but powerful is happening beneath your feet and under the…
Physicists measured time without a clock at the quantum scale
Time feels steady and familiar in daily life, but at the quantum level it becomes slippery. That puzzle…
Study finds microbes used oxygen far earlier than scientists thought
Oxygen fills the air today, but for most of Earth’s early history it barely existed. Scientists say the…
New study finds AI depictions of Neanderthals are outdated and wrong
Over the past 40 years, phones and computers have turned into the world’s largest library. Answers now arrive…
Scientists reveal the hidden dangers of plastic pollution to marine life
Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University…
Chemists convert plastic waste into a powerful new tool to capture carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide levels keep climbing, even after years of promises to cut emissions. At the same time, plastic…
Scientists build the world’s first large-scale quantum sensor network to search for dark matter
Researchers from China recently announced the creation of the largest quantum network in history to directly investigate the…