Why did humans evolve to talk, while monkeys were left to hoot, squeak and grunt to communicate? The question has long puzzled scientists, who blamed our closest primate cousins’ inability to reprod… [+3101 chars]
ByUniversity of California - San DiegoAugust 12, 2022 An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Tra… [+4756 chars]
Flightless birds tend to disappear soon after human settlements arrive. Some species have been hunted to extinction, while others have had their habitats destroyed. When you think of birds, you prob… [+6405 chars]
How long is a day? At the moment, days are getting longer and we don't know why. The Earth is taking a bit longer to rotate on its axis. We have known for decades that the speed at which our Earth s… [+3792 chars]
In the late 1970s the French philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour spent two years at the Salk Institute observing molecular biologists the way an anthropologist might observe a tribe of hunter-ga… [+9566 chars]
Uninspired by the dull scientific numbering of exoplanets? Well, here's your chance to name an alien world and its host star by connecting them to human cultures. To mark the 10th anniversary of its… [+2249 chars]
The regularity of the annual show is the result of the Earth passing through the comets previous path in its own orbit around the sun. Weather for the peak of the event across the central Island is … [+1197 chars]
Astronomers are planning a very strange idea, ‘fishing’ a meteorite in the ocean and landing it on Earth. What do you do? Astronomers are planning a very strange idea, ‘fishing’ a meteorite in the … [+6805 chars]
Okay, that's interesting. Enter the Void Humans know surprisingly little about one of the largest features of the cosmos: big ol' voids of nothingness. If the universe was a brain cell, cosmic void… [+1655 chars]
In case you havent heard, were sending a probe to explore Uranus, so that we can all better understand whats happening on the surface and deep inside. Ill give you a minute to stop laughing. Everyo… [+6013 chars]
Using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), scientists have made the first-ever detection of gas in a circumplanetary disk. This detection also suggests a presence of a very young exop… [+2846 chars]
The discovery of a new, Neptune-sized planet called HD 56414 b around a hot-burning but short-lived, A-type star offers clues on why so few gas giants smaller than Jupiter have been seen around the b… [+3796 chars]
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