Credit: public domain CC0 The use of ancient DNA, including samples from human remains around 45,000 years old, has shed light on a previously unknown aspect of human evolution. Dr Yassine Souilmi,…
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Strong Supershear Earthquakes Are More Common Than Thought
Aerial view of the San Andreas Fault between Bakersfield Santa Barbara. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress According to a study conducted by UCLA geophysicists and published today in nature geoscience. Scientists…
Black Holes in Quantum States Have Surprisingly Weird Masses
For the better part of a century, quantum physics and the theory of general relativity have been a marriage on the rocks. Each perfect in their own way, the two just can’t…
A map of the Octopus visual system reveals its own solution in plain sight
A valiant effort to map the optic lobe of the octopus brain, cell by cell, revealed a visual system with remarkable similarities and differences to ours. The parallels are particularly interesting because…
NASA’s lunar flashlight ready to search for water ice on the Moon
This illustration shows NASA’s lunar flashlight above the Moon. The SmallSat mission will have a very elongated orbit, taking it less than 15 kilometers above the lunar south pole to search for…
Strong Supershear Earthquakes Are More Common Than Thought
According to a study conducted by UCLA geophysicists and published today in nature geoscience. Scientists analyzed all the strike-slip earthquakes of magnitude 6.7 or greater around the world since 2000 – there…
Sociable placental mammals evolve faster than their solitary counterparts [Study]
Mammals are known to be a group of vertebrate animals that are dedicated to nurturing their young by feeding them with milk from special mammary glands of the mother. However, this evolutionary…
Hubble caught the gasps of a dying star echoing through a nearby galaxy
The last cries of light emitted by a dying star have been preserved in a series of eerily beautiful images, slowly echoing through the cosmos. The Hubble Space Telescope captured in spectacular…
What happens to rainbows when the planet’s climate changes?
Rain, cloud cover and other factors make rainbows possible. Climate impacts may mean more of them in some places, less in others. Climate change and its evolutionary impacts touch every aspect of…
Powerful telescope captures jaw-dropping aftermath of giant star’s death
It’s Halloween, and the space organizations don’t intend to make us forget it. NASA Twitter handles have been changed. NASA exoplanets are now NASA Hexoplanets and NASA Goddard is now NASA Ghoul….