Since its wheels-down landing in February of last year, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has been busily at work, on the prowl steering itself across the Jezero Crater landscape. A key duty of the ro… [+10047 chars]
And what hairy beast, its hour come at last, slouches towards a laboratory to be born? Some 3,900 years ago, on mainland Siberia, the last known woolly mammoth breathed its last. Since then, humans … [+8609 chars]
The Earth shaved 1.59 milliseconds off its rotation on June 29, 2022 and became the shortest day recorded since accurate daily measurements using atomic clocks first began in the 1960s. The length o… [+2895 chars]
An artist's interpretation of an early human hunting a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab)A 37,000-year-old mammoth butchering site, uncovered in … [+10047 chars]
Within 24 hours of accessing the first stage of Australia's newest supercomputing system, researchers have processed a series of radio telescope observations, including a highly detailed image of a s… [+5168 chars]
Astronomers have long sought the launch sites for some of the highest-energy protons in our galaxy. Now a study using 12 years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope confirms that one su… [+5744 chars]
Sneezing is far from a uniquely human behavior. Maybe youve seen your dog or cat do it, or watched a YouTube video of a giraffe sneezing on an unsuspecting toddler at the zoo. In fact, sneezing doesn… [+1142 chars]
