Category: 7. Science

Its rockets may have only reached orbit twice so far and its lunar lander is still many years out from getting anywhere near the Moon — but Amazon cofounder Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is already looking far into the future.

Last…

Most of the genetic risk for developing a substance use disorder comes from genes that broadly affect how our brains process rewards, regulate impulses and weigh consequences – not from genes that specifically influence substance…

By tracing magnetic signals preserved in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia, geoscientists have found the oldest direct evidence yet that parts of the planet’s outer shell were shifting across the globe, pushing the origins of…

A suspected meteorite crashed into a home in suburban Houston on Saturday night, according to local residents and officials.

Speaking to the local news outlet KHOU11 over the weekend, Spring area resident Sherrie James recalled the incident,…

The natural world is full of curiosities. That’s one reason why, in the 1970s, a discovery seemed so out of place—a sample of uranium ore from an ancient African mine that didn’t match the signature of natural…

A new study has found that humans prefer many of the same sounds that other animals choose when mates are on the line.

That overlap recasts beauty in sound as something that may run deeper than culture, reaching across species through shared…

More than 10,000 Starlink satellites currently orbit the Earth. We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how remote our location, and streaking through images from research telescopes.

SpaceX recently announced that it wants to…

Scientists have recreated a life-sized oviraptor and egg nest to better understand how these bird-like dinosaurs incubated their eggs about 70 million years ago.

A study published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution examined whether…

A series of viral social media posts drew attention to an old…