At Christmas, we instinctively look up. Not only at the lights on our streets and trees, but at the sky itself. The year slows, the nights grow longer, and the Universe seems to lean a little closer, offering moments of quiet wonder.
A significant fossil uncovered on the southwest coast of England has led scientists to identify a new prehistoric marine species, one that may represent the largest marine reptile ever recorded. The fossil, consisting of a lower jawbone over two…
Features that paleontologists have long found sexy about dinosaurs were probably sexy to the dinosaurs themselves. Even feather patterns on some dinosaurs, such as the striped tail of the fuzzy dinosaur Sinosauropteryx, hint at visual signals…
While some volcanoes have spent the last 2,000 years sleeping soundly, Stromboli, a volcanic island to the north of Sicily, has taken no such rest. In fact, it’s spent nearly all of that time in an almost constant state of eruption.
Physicists have experimentally reversed electromagnetic waves in time, confirming a theoretical prediction that has stood for decades. The process, known as time reflection, causes a wave to retrace its path backward through time rather than…
By firing tiny projectiles of iron-carbon alloy from a high-speed cannon, scientists have finally demonstrated that a weird part-solid, part-liquid-like state thought to exist inside Earth’s inner core is indeed possible.
