Category Science

Most people are familiar with the Black Death, a plague that killed millions of people during the Middle Ages. But did you know there was a similar plague years earlier?…

If you need an excuse to bundle up, sip hot chocolate, and stare at the sky for a few hours, the Geminid meteor shower delivers. Every December, this reliable shower…

Think of a black hole, and you might imagine a literal dark hole, but contrary to expectations, these mysterious phenomena are among the brightest objects in the universe. Now, computational…

Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question that has sparked curiosity in astronomers for generations. There are at least 6,000 known planets outside our Solar System (also known…

The fanfare surrounding Comet 3I/ATLAS is far from quieting down, as the mysterious object from beyond our Solar System hurtles toward its closest approach with Earth. Flying at breakneck speeds…

The pyramids of Giza are among the oldest monumental stone buildings ever created, and also contain the two tallest ancient pyramids in the world. The Great Pyramid — the tallest…

Underwater, a dolphin’s day unfolds through feeding, training, and bursts of play — and now, scientists have discovered that those shifts leave a clear signature in sound. According to a…

The hadrosaurs had hard lives. That’s what their bones seem to suggest, anyway. According to a new paper published in iScience, a team of paleontologists has analyzed the peculiar injuries…

Rules of thumb for maintaining healthy lifestyles may seem ubiquitous. They dictate how many steps we should be getting in a day or how many glasses of water we need…

The identity of Nanotyrannus has long hinged on one unresolved question: Was it its own small-bodied predator — or simply a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex that hadn’t finished growing? Now, researchers…