Category: 7. Science

For decades, scientists have debated whether early humans truly took on the largest animals around them or merely stumbled across the leftovers.

Massive bones and stone tools often turn up side by side at ancient sites, but nature can easily mix…

By creating a new map of Antarctica’s subterranean landscape, researchers have uncovered a vast topography of previously hidden hills,…

Far below where sunlight can reach, subtle marks in Moroccan stone suggest that life left a record in a place long assumed to be erased by time. 

The finding matters because it challenges where scientists think fragile traces of early ecosystems…

Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, roughly one-fifth the width of a human hair, each cell contains a dense mix of proteins, organelles, and molecular machinery. Being able to place tiny…

Bacteriophages — viruses that prey on bacteria — are nature’s tiniest predators. On Earth, their lives are…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the…

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit.

Exoplanets are worlds that orbit…