Category: 7. Science

Scientists working in Wyoming’s badlands have uncovered two rare fossilized “mummies” of hoofed Edmontosaurus, a…

For more than 50 years, scientists have dreamed of seeing the hidden patterns that govern the motion of nonlinear waves—the unpredictable ripples that shape tsunamis, tides, and turbulent flows. Now, a team from the University of Queensland has…

It rains on the Sun, the gigantic thermonuclear orb that burns with the multi-million-degree ‘fires’ of fusion.

This rain is made of superheated plasma, and researchers might have discovered its secret: quickly shifting flows of elements such…

More than 66 million years ago, a duck-billed dinosaur named Edmontosaurus annectens left behind something remarkable.

When scientists from the University of Chicago revisited its fossil remains in Wyoming, they uncovered not simple bones, but…

Today’s Image of the Day from the European Space Agency features the spiral galaxy NGC 1309. This graceful swirl of stars, gas, and dust is located about 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. 

The new view captures…

Marine organisms that build tiny calcium carbonate shells are quietly doing much more than we realized, they help regulate Earth’s climate.

Researchers found that the plankton-based shell builders known as calcifying plankton – including…

A new study describes a tiny Caribbean dirt ant trapped in Dominican amber for about 16 million years. The find shows that this stealthy ant group once lived on islands where none exist today.

The fossil belongs to a newly named species, Basiceros…

In case you missed it, there’s a fascinating object from another part of the universe visiting our neck of the woods.

Dubbed 3I-ATLAS — “three” as in the third known interstellar object from outside of our solar system — the…