Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans
You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can…
A Stray SpaceX Rocket Will Crash Into the Moon Next Month. Here’s What You Should Know
The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has been stuck in a highly elliptical orbit for…
Warm ocean water is melting a giant Antarctic glacier from below. Scientists want to stop it with an 80km underwater curtain |
Scientists are checking if an underwater curtain is what will keep an Antarctic glacier from slowly melting due…
The Milky Way Flipped its Disk Billions of Years Ago
The Milky Way is ancient, and its first stars formed shortly after the Big Bang. It’s been through…
Coral Reef Long Presumed Dead Is Rediscovered ‘Teeming with Life’ Off Coast of Africa
– credit, Gérard Zinzindohoué via SWNS A coral reef long presumed dead has been rediscovered “teeming with life”…
After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet
A near-Earth object that astronomers believed was an asteroid for nearly three decades has been unmasked as a…
Elon Musk’s Starlink enters one of Africa’s most connected countries as SpaceX expands to its 28th market
The satellite internet service became operational on July 18, according to Seychelles Vice President Sebastien Pillay, months…
Elephants in Mozambique’s Gorongosa Park are being born tuskless at rates approaching 33% — a genetic signature of 15 years of civil-war ivory hunting that the population is now passing to its daughters
In the floodplains of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, roughly a third of the female elephants born after the…
Naked Mole-Rat Queens Release a Chemical to Stop Other Females From Reproducing
It’s tough being a female in a naked mole-rat colony; they live a long life of servitude, maintaining…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could reveal black holes ripping up stars. It’s set to launch Aug. 30
The launch of NASA’s next super telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), may mean there is…
Arctic bobtail squid seen alive in natural habitat for first time ever
Stretching for 972,000 km2, Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest national park on the planet. But, despite its epic…
Mice on ‘godforsaken’ frozen volcanoes eat toxic plants to survive conditions ‘not remotely compatible with long-term human survival’
Scientists have discovered how mice survive at extreme altitudes on the tips of icy dormant volcanoes in the…