Approximately 365 million years ago, one group of fishes left the water to live on land. These animals were early tetrapods, a lineage that would radiate to include many thousands of species includin… [+6853 chars]
Scientists have discovered an astronomical "needle in a haystack" in a galaxy neighboring the Milky Way: a special type of "quiet" black hole that could be the first of its kind to be detected outsid… [+2735 chars]
Look to the southeastern sky in the early hours of Thursday (July 21) morning to see the waning crescent moon shining close to Mars. The pair will be close enough to share the field of view in a pa… [+2445 chars]
By shining a laser pulse sequence inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have created a remarkable, never-before-seen phase of matter. The phase has the bene… [+6763 chars]
Solar winds from the snapping of a gigantic "canyon of fire" filament on the sun are set to slam into the Earth today (July 20) or tomorrow (July 21), triggering a weak G1 geomagnetic storm. Sun wat… [+4500 chars]
Though it's been more than a week since NASA revealed its first exquisite set of James Webb Space Telescope images, exhilaration following that July 12 broadcast hasn't died down. And at the rate the… [+5087 chars]
SpaceX says it’s on track to launch another batch of polar Starlink satellites from the West Coast as early as 10:39 am PDT (17:39 UTC), Thursday, July 21st. On top of featuring one of the fastest F… [+3890 chars]
By shining a laser pulse sequence inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have created a remarkable, never-before-seen phase of matter. The phase has the bene… [+6763 chars]
As the first dinosaurs were finding their feet around 230 million years ago, the ancestors of modern mammals were also emerging. Somewhere along the way they developed a remarkable ability: to genera… [+4961 chars]
Summary: In a study of speakers of 45 languages, researchers found similar patterns of brain activity and language selectivity. Source: MIT Over several decades, neuroscientists have created a well… [+8150 chars]
The Moon isn’t necessarily there if you don’t look at it. So says quantum mechanics, which states that what exists depends on what you measure. Proving reality is like that usually involves the compa… [+6040 chars]
Beneath the Andes mountains in South America, Earth's crust is dripping into the planet's interior. Moreover, this has been occurring for millions of years a long geological process that has produce… [+5122 chars]
