It looks a bit like a boat, or a stout fedora. So what the hell is this rusty brown gossamer of a space cloud?Read more...
Isaac Schultz
A team of marine researchers with the Minderoo—UWA Deep Sea Research Centre got a treat recently, when a rare deep-sea hooked squid (Taningia danae) mistook the crew’s baited camera for prey. The team captured the remarkable footage about 3,281 feet (1...
Wild Video Shows Deep-Sea Squid Using Its ‘Headlights’ to Attack ... Recently updated !
Thirty-one different Egyptian pyramids appear to have been built along a branch of the Nile River that dried up millennia ago, according to new research published today in Communications Earth & Environment.Read more...
Egypt’s Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branch ... Recently updated !
The cutting-edge Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant black hole merger yet, which occurred when the universe was just 740 million years old. It’s the first time astronomers have seen a merger so early in the universe’s history, making it ...
Ancient Black Hole Collision Spotted, Occurred Shortly After the Big ... Recently updated !
To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you’d expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the brittle star was cloning itself, regenerating three of it...
Stunning 150-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows a Brittle Star Cloning Itself Recently updated !
Engineers are cooking up a new clean energy solution: charging up crystals with solar energy to temperatures of 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius), potentially making them a greener substitute for the carbon-intensive processes that smelt...
Scientist Trap Sunlight to Reach Temps of Nearly 2,000 Degrees ... Recently updated !
Some stars in our very own Milky Way are some of the earliest ever seen, according to researchpublished today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.Read more...
Some of the Oldest Stars Were Just Found in Our ... Recently updated !
Conspiracy theorists on social media have been busy at work peddling their latest conclusion: The magnificent auroras seen over swaths of four different continents over the weekend were caused by a University of Alaska program that studies the ionosphe...
Conspiracy Nuts Are Spreading a Bizarre Theory About Those Epic ... Recently updated !
Sharks, glorious sharks. One of the trinity that makes up elasmobranchs, a group of cartilaginous fish that includes sharks, rays, and skates. Sharks get their fair—actually unfair—share of hate for negative portrayals in media, especially of great whi...
The Sharks, Ranked Recently updated !
Inclement weather on the Sun’s surface could affect infrastructure on Earth and in space, scientists are predicting, as our host star approaches its solar maximum.Read more...