Syrian Pyramid Burial Mound Could Be the World’s Oldest War Memorial
A huge, 4,300-year-old pyramid-shaped burial mound in Syria, containing 30 individuals believed to be warriors, could be the…
World’s Oldest Manmade “Quasicrystal” Discovered Under Humanity’s First Nuclear Test Site
5:29:45 a.m. local time. Atop a 100-foot (30.48-meter) tower, a metal-coated plutonium device, called “Gadget,” initiated its implosion.…
Light-Shrinking “Metamaterial” Allows Microscopes to See Finer Structures
Anyone who’s been around a laboratory long enough will know a microscope like the back of their hand.…
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 “Counterfeit” Pollen—And They’re 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 Origin’s “New Shepard” Makes History
Hot on the heels of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity launch just a bit more than a week prior,…
Virgin Galactic’s 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 planet’s 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…