Velociraptor is one of the most bird-like dinosaurs ever discovered. It was small and fast, and the sickle-shaped claw on the second toe of each foot made it a formidable predator. A special bone in its wrist allowed it to…
Ever since he discovered music created by concentration camp prisoners in 1988, Francesco Lotoro has been working tirelessly to revive every single musical note left behind. Gedenkstaette Buchenwald/United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumNazi concentration camp prisoners skilled in music were forced…
Artist’s rendition of a binary neutron star merger. HONOLULU — For the second time ever, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has spotted two ultradense stellar remnants known as neutron stars violently crashing together. The gravitational wave event seems to have…
The Worldview tool from NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) shows this scene on Jan. 2, 2020, as wildfires continue in their intensity along the southeastern coast of Australia. Satellites in space can spot changes to Earth’s…
Hawaii’s island Maui won’t be drowning anytime soon. Just like zits, volcanic islands don’t last forever. Some are oldtimers, like the more than 20-million-year-old Canary Islands in the Atlantic, while others have already drowned, like some of the Galapagos Islands…
Scientists from King’s College London have found that the brain volumes of neglected babies are 8.6%