A screenshot of the APS website shows the announcement that the March meeting has been cancelled. One of the world’s largest and most important annual physics conferences was canceled this weekend due to COVID-19 coronavirus fears, less than a day…
One of the ancient cockroaches is pictured preserved in its amber grave. A pair of 99-million-year-old cockroaches are rewriting the early history of the underworld. The ancient roaches, found preserved in amber in Myanmar, are the oldest-known examples of “troglomorphic”…
February 29 only comes around once every 4 years in the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used by most of the world. Also called the “Christian calendar” or “Western calendar,” it is internationally accepted as a civil…
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In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at a mysterious group of animals that included some of the heaviest, tallest and fiercest creatures to ever walk the planet — dinosaurs. Are modern birds really living…
A novel coronavirus first detected in Wuhan, China, is causing the COVID-19 disease. Now that the new coronavirus is expected to spread across the United States, many people are wondering whether the country is up for the challenge. The first…