Category: 7. Science

NEW YORK (AP) – Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.

One is a spindly stick about 2 1/2 feet (80 centimeters) long that could have been used for digging…

BEIJING — A new study has revealed that observing Earth from the moon serves as a powerful way of seeing the planet”s true, global radiation signature, cutting through the “noise” of local weather to capture its core…

A new genus and species of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period has been identified from the fossilized remains found in northern Patagonia, Argentina.

Researchers have long sought to understand the limits of dissipationless flow in superfluids, and a new study published this week delves into this phenomenon within binary superfluids of light. Pierre-Élie Larré (Université Paris-Saclay,…

Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite bombardment over 4 billion years could only have delivered a tiny fraction of Earth’s water, forcing researchers to rethink a…

Halley’s Comet is named after Edmond Halley, the British astronomer who first identified it as a periodic comet in the 18th century — but new research has revealed that a monk named Eilmer of Malmesbury actually discovered the comet’s…

A giant solar flare on our sun was powered by an avalanche of smaller magnetic disturbances, providing the clearest insight yet into how energy from our star is released in a torrent of high-energy ultraviolet light and X-rays. The discovery…

A group of researchers supported by FAPESP has confirmed the identity of the first lichens to inhabit Earth, Spongiophyton, around 410 million years ago, in great detail for the first time. Lichens are a symbiosis of fungi and algae…