Category Science

In the open ocean, a manta ray’s path can seem deliberate, until, without warning, it slips beneath the surface and vanishes into the blue. Hours or days later, it reappears…

Shipwrecks from ancient times have opened up a page of history that tells us how different cultures collaborated. A treasure trove of sunken cargo that was recently found in the…

Key Takeaways on the Oldest Dinosaur The oldest dinosaur was Nyasasaurus, which lived about 243 million years ago. Nyasasaurus lived during the middle Triassic when the supercontinent Pangea was still…

Unaddressed pain can drive us to the most obscure practices. A recent case of an 82-year-old woman proved that point: inspired by local folktales, she consumed eight live frogs, hoping…

Once a year, our planet passes through two separate streams of debris. Discarded by an ancient comet, the debris smashes into our atmosphere at around 65,000 miles per hour and…

Although there is a popular song requesting a hippopotamus for Christmas, the heat-loving giants aren’t animals we’d expect to enjoy a snowy Christmas climate. But a surprising new discovery has…

Altmetric adds podcasts as an attention source, offering a more complete view of research influence Wednesday 15 October 2025 In a major step forward for tracking the real-world impact of…

Earth’s magnetic field is like an all-encompassing shield, mostly deflecting charged particles that are launched from the sun. But this shield isn’t flawless; it has weak points that leave openings…

Spend an afternoon walking along a seashore, and you could come across a distressing sight: a beached dolphin or whale, stranded in the sand. If you discover an animal when…

Key Takeaways On How Dogs See The World How dogs see the world is based on the structure of their eyes. Dogs are dichromats, meaning they only have two color-processing…