Blue Whales Are Born Bigger Than Adult Great White Sharks
Great white sharks are documented scavengers of dead whales, and young blue whales are considered vulnerable to shark…
1.4-million-year-old footprints in Kenya suggest Paranthropus boisei was far larger than thought and walked in groups
A group of fossil footprints found beside an ancient lake in northern Kenya is giving researchers one of…
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! Astronomers capture clearest image yet of famous star’s elusive companion
Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert region of Northern Chile to discover…
In 1861, an English lord sent three red deer to New Zealand for sport; the animals later multiplied into a costly pest
A wild red deer. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons What began as an aristocratic gift intended to enhance New…
There’s a stretch of desert in Chile so dry that a single rain event turned up in four years of instrument records, and its soil fools life-detection hardware in precisely the way Mars does, so NASA spent four field seasons rehearsing a rover mission on it
For four years, an instrument station in the hyperarid core of Chile’s Atacama Desert logged one rain event.…
Quantum Heat Waves Spotted at Room Temperature for the First Time
Visualization of ray-like heat flow in boron arsenide at 300 K (80°F). Credit: H-Lab/UCLA The discovery could improve…
Scientists filmed this rare Arctic squid in the wild for the first time, guarding its eggs in sub-zero water inside the world’s largest national park
Credit: Maroni, P.J., Cornet, J., Skorikova, Y. et al./Springer Nature In the icy waters of Northeast Greenland, scientists…
Hidden charcoal reveals the true age of ancient cave paintings
For the first time, scientists have accurately determined the age of prehistoric paintings inside Font-de-Gaume, a celebrated decorated…
Several dead in Japan after magnitude 7.1 earthquake causes blast at mall | Earthquakes News
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing…
Meet IIT Kanpur professor HC Verma, who changed how millions learned physics
Before HC Verma wrote Concepts of Physics, one of India’s most influential textbooks, he noticed something troubling in…
Study reveals how pushing and pulling forces drive blood vessel formation
How do blood vessels form to reliably supply the body with oxygen and nutrients? A research team at…
Live updates: France issues heat warnings in wildfire-hit areas, as at least 63,000 evacuated near Madrid
Authorities in France over the weekend warned tourists not to travel to the country’s wildfire-hit southwest but sought…