The team was also able to use Pando’s genetic data to estimate its age using a theoretical model that plots evolutionary lineage, revealing an estimate of 16,000 to 80,000 years. It places Pando among ...

As we study the universe more, we have found ourselves to be part of much larger structures, formed by gravitational interactions. We orbit the Sun, the Sun is part of the Milky Way, and the Milky Way ...

This paleoclimatic time capsule is 1.5 million years old, making it the oldest continuous ice sample we have to date.

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense Objects (CUDOs) with a mass density greater than Osmium, the densest naturally ...

It’s taken well over a century and a half, but we found it, which should give hope to all those hunting for dark matter.

In children up until around the age of 7, it is common to reverse the letters b, d, q, p, and the numbers 9, 5, and 7, while ...

“Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories, helping us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems,” ...

The analysis revealed that myrmecophagy evolved at least once in each major mammal group (placentals, monotremes, and ...

This strange sight is actually a floating forest island that stirs around in a surprisingly circular lake. It’s known as El Ojo, Spanish for “the eye”, located in the Paraná Delta north of the ...

It was little more than a side comment, but it caught hold. Inspired by Schenkel, the now prolific wolf researcher David Mech ...

Though some might describe the Cyclops as a ‘Green Hell’, I think the landscape is magical, at once enchanting and dangerous, like something out of a Tolkien book.” ...

Some people have reported seeing so-called “ witch’s hair ” drifting in the air. These are fine, sharp, glassy needles that ...