Wild drone footage capture great white feeding frenzy off California coast
A gruesome underwater buffet drew a pack of hungry sharks to California’s central coast Friday, where drone footage…
In 2020, something near the centre of the Milky Way switched on and off six times in radio waves, then disappeared from every follow-up search in X-rays and infrared — leaving astronomers with only the name ASKAP J173608.2−321635 and the possibility of an entirely new kind of object.
ASKAP J173608.2-321635 is not a name built for memory. It is a coordinate label, the kind astronomers use…
Time may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglement
Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker…
Deuterium in Comets Tell Interesting Tales
Comets have played an interesting role in astronomy history. From antiquity, many cultures saw them omens or spirits,…
Hot Jupiter CoRoT-2b Rotates Backward to Orbit
Hot Jupiter exoplanets have completely changed how we look at the universe. This is because before the first…
A rare supernova peeled back a star’s layers and revealed a hidden secret
Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called…
Scientists estimate giant Caribbean sponge may be more than 2,300 years old and still filtering seawater today |
Imagine an animal that began its life centuries before the Roman Empire reached its height and has quietly…
Scientists find huge ‘magma systems’ inside Mars
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Complex life may have started before Earth had much oxygen at all. A University of Bristol-led Nature study found that the ancient archaeal lineage behind all plants, animals and fungi began developing complex cellular machinery in anoxic oceans almost 2.9 billion years ago — nearly a billion years earlier than some scientists thought.
Complex life is usually told as an oxygen story. First Earth changed, then life became more complicated: oxygen…
The Plan To Collect and Save the DNA of Everything on the Endangered Species List
“We were talking with Director Nesvik,” says Matt James, Colossal’s chief animal officer, “and initially, in a very…
Future astronauts may walk across rocks from deep inside the Moon
NASA is preparing to land astronauts near the Moon’s south pole, a region no crewed mission has ever…
A Giant Scorpion the Size of a Coffee Table Is Forcing Scientists To Rethink Evolution
Life reconstruction of Praearcturus gigas. Credit: Franz Anthony Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may…