Category: 7. Science

If it were to melt completely, the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough ice to raise the global sea levels by 4 to 5 meters, or 13 to 16 feet.

The WAIS abuts the Ross Ice Shelf, the world’s largest floating ice mass, which…

Seventy million years ago, a crocodile relative almost as long as a compact car stalked dinosaurs in southern Argentina. Now, scientists have uncovered its fossilized bones, showing that this meat-eater was one of the top predators in its ancient…

A new species of pumpkin toadlet, almost the size of a pencil tip, has been discovered within the damp, shadowy leaf litter of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. 

The dazzlingly bright orange creature has been named Brachycephalus lulai in honor of…

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A photographer has captured not one but two rare forms of lightning, which he compares to the famous scene from Independence Day when the alien mothership destroys the…

A colossal dinosaur fossil discovered in southern China is shaking up what paleontologists thought they knew about dinosaur size and evolution. Named Tongnanlong zhimingi, the newly described species may have stretched up to 92 feet (28 meters)…

Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old…

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant “hot Jupiter” planet has two staggeringly long tails composed of helium that currently defy explanation. The observations represent the first study of gases…

An unusual new ‘homologous series’ of barium compounds forms a potentially infinite sequence of related structures with predictable unit cells. The US team behind this discovery says that understanding such structure–composition…