Why Do Animals Keep Evolving Like Moles?
Moles seem innocuous (and cute, but that’s beside the point), but their body plan keeps popping up in…
How Do We See All the Way Back In Time?
Physicists have managed to think of several theoretical ways to approach nearly every extreme we can think of…
Engineers Are Already Forming Metals Using Robots
For thousands of years, humans have anchored cultural advancement in terms of our collective level of shaping and…
We Live In a World of Ants.
A group of ancient wasps decided they’d had enough of flying and lost their wings; what happened next…
Why Your Straw Looks Odd In a Glass of Water
Stop for a bit if you’re drinking water from a bottle or a glass through a straw (hopefully…
Waterlogged Site In Zambia Unveils 476,000-Year-Old Wooden Structure
A groundbreaking discovery in Zambia has unveiled the oldest wooden structure known to humanity, predating Homo sapiens’ appearance…
How Do You Find the Average of Everything?
Finding the “average” of a set of numbers is easy enough to some people, but how do you…
How Did We Get Around to Solving for X?
We always seem to supplant the unknown with the letter “X,” but its history stretches far beyond its…
We’ve Come So Close to Annihiliating Ourselves—Multiple Times
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer helmed research that would end a world war; unfortunately, what he found would forever…
What’s Up With That Pterosaur’s Teeth?
Lusognathus almadrava is a new pterosaur whose fossils were discovered in Portugal seem a bit bizarre for the…