Category: 7. Science

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…

A new study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Giulia Roccetti of the European Space Agency suggests rogue planets may host habitable moons.

The team found that thick hydrogen atmospheres can trap…

Comb jellies – very simple, gelatinous creatures best-known for their hypnotic underwater light shows – first appeared in Earth’s oceans around 550 million years ago.

For a long time, biologists have kind of considered them the living…

Lady Fortune was on astronomers’ side when they pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a comet…

How do you unravel the universe’s deepest secrets when the data piles up faster than we can make sense of it? It’s a bit like being handed a zillion puzzle pieces from a cosmic explosion and being told to recreate the original star.

Modern…

This gorgeous snap, taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted…