Category: 7. Science

We make no claims to be an expert on anything, but we do know that rule number one of working with big, expensive, mission-critical equipment is: Don’t break the big, expensive, mission-critical equipment. Unfortunately, though,…

In March of 2024 the DESI collaboration dropped a bombshell on the cosmological community: slim but significant evidence that dark energy might be getting weaker with time. This was a stunning result delivered after years of painstaking…

Archaeologists working in Toda Cave in southern Uzbekistan report that people were cutting wild barley with stone blades and sickles about 9,200 years ago. The find expands where the first barley grain harvesting happened, and it centers on a…

Mountains rise, plains spread, and cliffs retreat. A new study reports that the strength of the rock itself can swing erosion rates by a factor of 20 along a 125 mile stretch in southern Brazil.

The team chose this coast because climate and…

Conventional wisdom has it that stars keep their spherical shape because of the careful balance between gravitational pressure and the internal pressure caused by the nuclear fusion happening in their cores. When they run out of nuclear…

Archaeologists working in Crimea have recovered ancient DNA from a tiny bone and matched it to Neanderthals from Siberia. The genetic link spans about 1,900 miles across Eurasia and dates to roughly 45,000 years ago.

The result shows that…

This is Part 4 of a series on a recent study claiming the Universe is decelerating. You can read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 here.

So I got an email from Adam Reiss. You know, the guy who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics along…

This article originally appeared on The Conversation.

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and Plasma Acceleration and…