Camels are pictured on an Australian camel dairy farm in April 2016. Camels are not native to Australia, and thirsty feral camels have become a significant problem in recent months amid severe drought and fires. A lot of camels are…
Scientists are amazed that a human brain could persist for 2,600 years. In 2008, archaeologists were stunned to discover a human brain dating to the Iron Age. The finding seemed to defy basic biology; human brains, like any other soft…
An image shows the location of the newfound stars and Magellanic Stream’s locations in the sky as seen from our vantage point in the Milky Way We’re on our way to kill some galaxies, but long before that happens, we’re…
An artist’s impression of a quasar. New measurements of the universe’s expansion have relied on the gravitational lensing of light from six quasars. HONOLULU — A crisis in physics may have just gotten deeper. By looking at how the light…
Commodus reigned as emperor of Rome from A.D. 177 until his death in 192, when he was strangled in a bathtub by a wrestler. Emperors of ancient Rome tended to die bloody, violent deaths. In fact, a Roman gladiator had…
The annotated area in this animation of the Red Planet is where NASA spacecraft have found near-surface water ice that would be easy for astronauts to dig up. The 2010s saw big advances in Mars exploration, but the new decade…