Category Science

Planets with two suns have long captured the imagination of science fiction fans, thanks largely to Tatooine, the iconic desert world from Star Wars. Given what astronomers know about how…

With The State of Open Data survey and report now reaching its 10th anniversary, Mark Hahnel shares the wins of the past decade, the challenges, and the future of data…

Dogs can be very responsive to human voices, to the point that the sound of our voices may affect their stability. Like humans, animals can rely on visual cues to…

Mass extinctions are often imagined as sudden, planet-wide catastrophes caused by asteroid impacts, supervolcanoes, or runaway climate change. But Earth’s history also includes a series of smaller extinction events that…

Right after the Big Bang, the universe existed as an ultra-hot, ultra-dense fluid made of quarks and gluons, the most basic building blocks of matter. Known as quark-gluon plasma, it…

A popular wild mushroom, openly sold in markets and restaurants in southwest China, if not prepared properly, can cause a striking pattern of hallucinations straight out of a fairytale, according…

Sauropods, the long-neck dinosaurs that towered over the Jurassic landscape, grew up next to lots of hungry neighbors. These herbivores were vulnerable hatchlings, and according to a new study, they…

Beneath the rolling surface of the North Atlantic lies a geological structure so vast it rivals the Grand Canyon. Known as the King’s Trough Complex, this enormous system of deep…

Most brown bears may look like carbon copies of each other, but they all have their own little differences in appearance and behavior. Still, telling individual bears apart can be…

As much as it might seem that diseases like COVID-19 appear from nowhere, most illnesses that affect humans have been cooking for a very long time. They have infected and…