46,000-year-old bird, frozen in Siberian permafrost, looks like it ‘died a few days ago’
The bird’s frozen carcass was discovered by two men hunting for fossil mammoth tusks near the village of Belaya Gora in Siberia. For the last 46,000
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The universe could possibly have more dimensions. Here’s how
Could the universe have more dimensions than we realize? String theory is a purported theory of everything that physicists hope will one day explain … everything. All the forces, all the particles, all the constants, all the things under a…
Live Science podcast “Life’s Little Mysteries” 6: Mysteries of eating and drinking
In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at some of the mysteries surrounding a couple of things that we do every day — eating and drinking. Why do french fries taste so terrible when they’re…
Billion-year-old green algae is an ancestor of all plants on Earth
An illustration of how Proterocladus antiquus likely appeared 1 billion years ago. The oldest green seaweed on record, the ancestor of all land plants, lived about 1 billion years ago, a new study finds. Scientists have discovered the fossils of…
See record-high temperatures strip Antarctica of huge amounts of ice
Antarctica’s Eagle Island on Feb. 4 and Feb. 13, 2020. It’s easy to forget that Antarctica is technically a desert, until you see it without snow. A new pair of satellite images shared by NASA’s Earth Observatory makes that stark…
‘Starter’ Earth grew in a flash. Here’s how the planet did it.
An illustration of the protoplanetary disk around our sun. Dust from meteorites that crash-landed on Earth have revealed that Earth’s precursor, known as proto-Earth, formed much faster than previously thought, a new study finds. An analysis of this meteorite dust…