AN ANCIENT stone, dating back to before the birth of Jesus Christ, claims another leader “rose from the dead” after three days, just like the story told in the Bible, according to interpretations. The central figure to Christianity is believed…
In 2019 astronomers discovered the obliterated core of a heavy metal planet rotting around a dead star because nature is BRUTAL. If a bunch of exploding stars hadn’t forged the universe’s heaviest elements billions of years ago, there would be…
When scientists discover a round, lumpy object that they can’t totally explain, they have a special name for it: A blob. Blobs come in all shapes and sizes. Some are as small as cells, others as big as galaxies. Some…
The brain tells us what to do, how to act, what to think and what to say. It even remembers the face of strangers on the street and wraps them up in our worries, plops a party hat on them…
Mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) dazzle through the sky. Space dominated the headlines in 2019 with stories documenting the first successful image of a black hole, or how a crashed Israeli spacecraft spilled thousands of tardigrades onto the moon. But…
Israel and its neighbors are a rich archaeological ground. Hardly a month goes by without the excavation of some 2,000-year-old bit of human history. This past year was no exception. Archaeologists uncovered new mosaics, altars, churches and villages with ties…