Atlantic Puffin Genome Sequencing Reveals Its Diversity
If you’ve ever been to Iceland and spot a flying black-and-white bird, that’s not a penguin that’s gone…
Here Are the Science Nobel Prize Laureates For 2021
Heads up—the Nobel Prize laureates for 2021 have been announced for the sciences of Physiology and Medicine, Chemistry,…
Fossilized Handprints on Ancient Tibetan “Mud” Could Be the Oldest Parietal Art
Researchers publishing in the journal Science Bulletin may have found the oldest evidence of parietal art—immobile artwork commonly…
A Bronze-Age City May Have Been Destroyed By an Exploding Asteroid
3,600 years ago, in a city sitting 11.3 km (7 mi) northeast of the Dead Sea in what…
Proposed Off-grid Cooling System Uses Salts Dissolved in Water
If you’ll humor me by remembering your last chemistry class, you’ll remember that table salt, made of sodium…
Historical “Guest Star” of 1181 Was Actually a Rare Supernova
Astronomers have been around for as long as humanity has pondered about the skies above us. Since antiquity,…
Young Mars Was Dotted With Explosive Volcanoes, New Research Finds
Certain volcanoes on Earth belong in a class all on their own; they are capable of shifting temperatures…
Researchers Have Mapped Out the Rhino Family Tree
It’s no secret that rhinos are among the most distinct, and sadly endangered, animals on Earth. Survived by…
A Distant Supernova Appeared In Three Spots In the Sky At Once—And It Will Likely Appear Again
Supernovae have long been the subject of intense study by astronomers and astrophysicists. From seemingly birthing the elements…
New Study Stabilized Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Using a Sugar-Based Additive
Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have long been touted as the future of battery technology, primarily due to their increased…