Extraordinary Fossils Solve a 500-Million-Year Evolution Mystery : ScienceAlert
The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of evolution. Around 540 million…
Men Can Lose Their Y Chromosome With Age, And We Finally Know The Cost : ScienceAlert
The human Y chromosome is shrinking. In the next 5 million years or so, some geneticists think the…
Scientists Discover a Strange Global Pattern in The Way Humans Walk : ScienceAlert
Suppose you’re wandering around a space without any particular destination in mind – exploring a park maybe, or…
Earliest Flickering Quasar Ever Seen Could Explain Monster Black Holes : ScienceAlert
Astronomers have discovered the earliest known flickering quasar, whose light has traveled more than 13 billion years to…
A Small Part of Your Brain May Still Be Listening Under Anesthesia : ScienceAlert
Our brains might be more alert when unconscious than we realized. A new study of brain cells in…
Geologists Went Looking For Gold. They Found Something Far Rarer. : ScienceAlert
When you’re prospecting for gold, sometimes you can find treasure of a different kind. That’s what happened in…
Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Mystery Points to an Epic Human Journey : ScienceAlert
Somber, still, and timeworn, Stonehenge looms large in humanity’s mythos – an ancient, enigmatic monument that has stood…
Physicists Discover How Slime Mold ‘Makes Decisions’ Without a Brain : ScienceAlert
Slime molds are slippery, nebulous beings. They’re not true molds. They’re not even fungi. For most of their…
A Strange ‘Cold Blob’ in The Atlantic Signals We’re Almost at a Tipping Point : ScienceAlert
There’s a strange anomaly in the North Atlantic, just south of Greenland: A ‘cold blob’ of ocean and…
Giant Whale Graveyard Found in The Ocean Is Like a Drowned City of The Dead : ScienceAlert
In an abyssal chasm yawning deep beneath the Indian Ocean, a vast ‘city of the dead’ has slowly…
Hidden Coral World The Size of Vatican City Found Deep Beneath The Ocean : ScienceAlert
In the pitch-dark gloom beneath the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina, a magical wonderland lies…
A Lost World Almost as Big as Mars May Have Once Orbited Our Sun : ScienceAlert
Our Solar System may once have housed an extra world that no longer exists. This long-lost world may…