A Billion Years Are Missing from Grand Canyon Rock—And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Travelers to the United States of America, or even those aspiring to travel there one day, will most…
A Filipino Indigenous Population May Possess the Most Denisovan Ancestry
Since their discovery just a few decades ago, the Denisovans have become a subject of heated discussion and…
Astronomers Found a 3,000-Light-Year-Long “Splinter” in a Milky Way “Arm”
It has taken centuries for our understanding about our place in the universe to reach this point of…
Ancient Whale Found in the Desert Named After Egyptian God
As I’m sure most people have seen before in the closest streaming service documentary, whales are truly beautiful…
Planned Offshore Wind Turbine May Power Up to 20,000 Homes Each
In the field of engineering, scale is key. From the smallest of transistors inside nanodevices to the largest…
Scientists Studied an Egg Fossil in China—And Found a Baby Turtle Still Inside
It should come as no surprise that fossils, while remarkably rare in perspective, are truly one of the…
The Numbers Under Your Soda Bottle: What Do They Mean?
I imagine most of you have gone around and bought drinks from a nearby store. Maybe you’re out…
Scientists Use 192 Lasers to Get Near Nuclear Fusion “Ignition”
All current nuclear power plants in operation around the world use some variant of nuclear fission. In it,…
Pi Has Been Calculated to 62.8 Trillion Digits
Pi (π) is perhaps one of the most ubiquitous mathematical concepts in everyday life. For such a simple…
Physicists May Have Demonstrated Einstein’s Most Famous Equation Using “Virtual” Photons
E = mc2 You most likely already know what is perhaps Einstein’s most famous equation. You might not…