The ability to visually represent artifacts, whether inorganics like stone, ceramic and metal, or organics such as bone and plant material, has always been of great importance to the field of anthrop… [+4291 chars]
Follow the pollen. Records from past plant life tell the real story of global temperatures, according to research from a climate scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. Warmer temperatures … [+3778 chars]
Scientists want to increase their understanding of circadian rhythms, those internal 24-hour biological clock cycles of sleeping and waking that occur in organisms, ranging from humans to plants to f… [+4388 chars]
A special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone could be the key to new light-based quantum computers, which could solve long-held scientific mysteries, according to new research led … [+3000 chars]
Larsen-C Ice Shelf +175km Crack (as of 3 March 2017) [Middle-To-Top]. Source - O.V.E.R.V.I.E.W. CC SA 2.0. The rapid collapses of two ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the last quarter-ce… [+3543 chars]
The location map of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Adapted from Han and Zhou 2017. Credit: Wongtszyanyuki/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Mesozoic granitoids, ranging from the Triassic to the Cret… [+2539 chars]
Life on Earth could have begun much earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. The evidence comes in a fist-sized rock from Quebec, Canada, which is estimated to be between 3.75 and … [+2460 chars]
The U.S. Space Command announced this week that it determined a 2014 meteor hit that hit Earth was from outside the solar system. The meteor streaked across the sky off the coast of Manus Island, Pap… [+3802 chars]
A butterfly-shaped stellar nursery twinkles in red and orange in a beautiful photo recently released by NASA. The agency's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the image of the aptly named Butterfly N… [+2117 chars]
Solar flares coincide yet are part of our Sun's recurring 11-year cycle, divided into the minimum and maximum phases. Depending on the phase, the occurrence of solar activities such as solar storms m… [+3466 chars]
WASHINGTON NASA says its gearing up for a rapid-fire series of events on the International Space Station that includes the return of a private astronaut mission and the launch of a new long-duration … [+4745 chars]
We are living it totally crazy times, and if you dont think so, you havent been paying attention. For the first time in modern history, it is no longer fringe to believe in UFOs. Unidentified Flying … [+20240 chars]
