“One in a Million” Find: Soft Tissue Discovered in 450-Million-Year-Old Fossil
Crinoid soft tissue fossil. Credit: University of Oklahoma A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing…
Scientists Ponder a New Climate Defense Tactic: Throwing Shade at El Niño – Mother Jones
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Earth’s inner core is not rock but a sphere of solid iron-rich metal, smaller than the Moon yet probably more massive. As the planet gradually loses heat, liquid metal freezes onto its surface, expanding it by roughly a millimetre each year.
The centre of Earth is easy to imagine wrongly. It is not a cavern, not a furnace of…
Wildfires kill long after the flames have gone | Wildfires
The wildfires sweeping across Europe are damaging precious habitats, destroying property and taking people’s lives (Fast-spreading wildfire kills…
During Aging, Cells Develop a Preference for Short Genes
Cells transcribe active genes into messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules, using a crucial complex known as RNA polymerase II.…
When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s George VI Ice Shelf in January 2025, scientists aboard a nearby research vessel sailed to the exposed seafloor and found a thriving forest of giant sponges, octopuses, and sea spiders that had survived for centuries without sunlight
The most important part of the Antarctic iceberg story is not the iceberg. It is what appeared after…
Death trap: what to do about the everyday items catching and killing Australian wildlife | Wildlife
Thousands of native animals get snared in fruit tree netting, fencing and fishing gear every year in Australia…
Experts warn of ways screwworm could spread in the US and new difficulties in keeping it at bay | US news
When conservationists set up cameras in remote regions of Central American forests, they wanted to monitor illegal cattle…
Taiwan takes gold at Physics Olympiad
By Rachel Lin and Esme Yeh / Staff reporters Taiwan tied for first with five golds at the…
‘The moon looked wrong’: Artemis II mission controller Chris White on taking historic lunar flyby photos from 250,000 miles away
On April 6, the four crewmembers of NASA‘s Artemis II mission swooped around the far side of the…
Spain wildfires: British hikers found with severe burns after crying for help
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Why space games still struggle with the scale of the universe
Space is incomprehensibly vast. So huge that the human mind struggles to even conceptualize it. The observable universe…