Category: 7. Science

When it comes to finding baby, still-forming planets around young stars, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory is astronomers’ most adept tool. ALMA has delivered many images of the protoplanetary disks…

A specialized pod of orcas in the Gulf of California has been filmed hunting juvenile great white sharks, flipping them upside down to extract their nutrient-rich livers.

The pod, known as Moctezuma’s pod, may be exploiting warming waters…

The integration tasks still include installing Haven-1’s environmental control and life support elements, power, data, and thermal control systems, thrusters, fuel tanks, and internal crew accommodations. While that work…

For a more detailed view, patients need to visit a motion analysis lab, where hourslong biomechanical assessments require highly trained technicians and equipment that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. “The status quo is that…

The Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine contains key Middle to Upper Paleolithic transitional archaeological sites, including the site of Starosele, where archaeologists have now discovered a 5-cm-long fragment of a Neanderthal bone between 46,000…