The Last Ice Age May Have Wiped Out Populations In Both East Asia and Europe, New Study Finds
Modern humans lived in East Asia some 40,000 years ago, according to DNA extracted from a male jawbone…
Bees Eat Orchid âCounterfeitâ PollenâAnd Theyâre Just As Nutritious
A nondescript orchid, Cypripedium wardii, goes about its business inside a lush forest in Sichuan province, China. Nearby,…
How Two Astronomers With Some Markers Linked Us To the Stars
A very spirited Carl Sagan once said in one of the episodes of his 1980 TV miniseries Cosmos:…
Blue Originâs âNew Shepardâ Makes History
Hot on the heels of Virgin Galacticâs VSS Unity launch just a bit more than a week prior,…
Virgin Galacticâs First Fully-Crewed Flight and the Boundary of Space
[06/09/2021 UPDATE: The BBC reports that Virgin Galactic has been grounded by the US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA)…
Scientists Just Dug Out the Deepest Ocean Hole Ever
Studying the planetâs surface is an arduous task; oftentimes the scientists responsible for doing so need to take…
Roc On: Stratolaunch Plane Completes Second Test Flight
It seems the world just keeps adding entries to its flight history books recently. First we fly a…
Perseveranceâs MOXIE Generates Oxygen on Mars
It seems the list of âfirstsâ for NASA’s Perseverance rover keeps scooping up more and more achievements. After…
Tyrannosaurids May Have Hunted in Packs, New Research Suggests
The image of a lone Tyrannosaurus rex, famously shortened to T. rex, locked in combat with another dinosaur…
Ingenuity Takes Flight
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S.A. (NASA) made history as Ingenuity, the small robotic helicopter aboard their…