Category: 7. Science

About 68-million-years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, a giant fossil egg was laid in Antarctica. The excavated remains reveal that a huge marine reptile laid eggs instead of giving birth to live offspring, as scientists originally…

The Moon has no real atmosphere, but Earth has, in a sense, been generously trying to share its own for billions of years. A new study has found that our planet’s magnetic field could be what’s funnelling particles from Earth’s atmosphere…

Editor’s note: “The Spoken Word” is shared by Derrick Porter each Sunday during the weekly Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square broadcast. This will be given Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. This week is No. 5,023 of the broadcast.

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Across parts of Japan, a bamboo that flowers only once every 120 years is blooming, yet its future now looks uncertain.

Researchers watching this rare event see many aging stands beginning to die back together, raising the possibility that some…