Category Science

After lying dormant for nearly 100 million years, a supermassive black hole has roared back to life — and astronomers have caught it in the act. New radio images, published…

Key Takeaways on People Born With A Tail People born with a tail either have true tails or pseudo-tails. A true tail is a vestigial body part that serves no…

There was a time when Stonehenge was believed to be a kind of “Neolithic computer.” Archaeology has since corrected that misconception. Today, the evidence points strongly in another direction: to…

Key Takeaways on One-Celled Organisms One-celled organisms began influencing life once their descendants achieved multicellularity. Researchers once thought that this multicellularity transition was rather explosive, but it turns out that…

Key Takeaways on How Many Satellites Circle Earth There are about 15,000 artificial satellites currently circling Earth, with most residing in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The satellites circling Earth are…

Although the woolly rhinoceros died out alongside other iconic Ice Age megafauna, a trace of this extinct species has survived for thousands of years inside an ancient wolf’s stomach. Inside…

Microorganisms have evolved together for millennia under Earth’s gravitational conditions, fundamentally shaping their physiology. But what would happen to their dynamics if they lived under space conditions, without gravity laying…

More than 2,500 years after they were buried, the teeth of Iron Age Italians are still keeping records. Microscopic patterns locked inside dental enamel and plaque reveal when children faced…

Growth rings preserved in fossilized leg bones have been used to estimate how fast Tyrannosaurus rex grew and how old the specimen was when it died. Based on those rings,…

In the aftermath of a mass extinction 444 million years ago, the oceans were simplified. Many familiar forms of marine life vanished, and conditions at the seafloor became unstable. New…