This illustration shows the newly described Cambrian arthropod Xiaocaris luoi, swimming along the ocean floor as they look for their next meal. About 518 million years ago, a fierce shrimp-like creature didn’t brandish just one “knife,” it flashed more than…
A steroid called dexamethasone reduced the death rate among hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 infections in a large clinical trial, U.K. researchers announced today (June 16). One caveat: The trial data have not been published and have not undergone scientific…
END OF THE WORLD fears are being stoked this week as conspiracy theorists claim Nibiru, or Planet X, could arrive on June 21 – the supposed end times date predicted by the Maya. The doomsday Planet X or Nibiru has…
How many intelligent alien civilizations are out there among the hundreds of billions of stars in the spiral arms of the Milky Way? According to a new calculation, the answer is 36. That number assumes that life on Earth is…
A SOLAR ECLIPSE this week will turn the Sun into a beautiful ring of fire – but how often does an eclipse occur? The Moon will pass in front of the Sun this Sunday (June 21) and obscure all but…
Wormholes, or tunnels in the fabric of space-time, are ferociously unstable. As soon as even a single photon slips down the tunnel, the wormhole closes in a flash. But what if the problem was that our imagined wormholes weren’t quite…