Gil Caparas
320 posts
Recent Chilean Ankylosaur Find Had a Tail That Looked Like an Aztec Sword
Modern Sciences is no stranger to odd dinosaur finds, like Greenland’s Issi saaneq find from just last month.…
December 17, 2021
Some of Earth’s Water May Have Come From the Sun, Scientists Find
Evoking images of the Sun shouldn’t normally make you think of water. After all, it’s a giant hot…
December 16, 2021
Ancient Bacteria May Have Paved the Way for Earth’s Mountains to Form—Almost Literally
The various mountains that surround the landscape stand testament to the great forces of nature that continuously shape…
December 14, 2021
New Camera Imaging Tech Is Barely the Size of a Salt Grain
Cameras that used to require an entire team of people to carry around now fit snugly inside your…
December 14, 2021
Forget Supercars—the Fastest Man-made Object Is a Space Probe
A normal car going 50 km/h (31 mi/h) would need 34 days to circle the Earth, which has…
December 13, 2021
Physicists Detect Neutrinos At the Large Hadron Collider In a Landmark First
If middle school and high school science has taught us anything about particle physics, it’s that atoms are…
December 13, 2021
New “Super Jelly” Hydrogel Acts Like Shatter-Proof Glass When Under Pressure
Earlier this year, they were used to treat skin ulcers from patients suffering from diabetes; next, they were…
December 12, 2021
Record-Breaking “Hot Jupiter” Exoplanet Is Spiraling Towards Its Doom
Astronomers looking out to the sky have spotted an exoplanet that proves to break some records; in fact,…
December 9, 2021
New Recyclable Thermoset Polymer Is Based Off of Wood Lignin
Materials scientists and engineers would be the first to tell you that there are primarily two kinds of…
December 9, 2021
Reusable and Freezable Hydrogels Skip the Need for Ice Cubes
Some of you may have heard of those reusable ice packs that people sometimes put in their drinks…
December 8, 2021