Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere more than a billion years before the Earth, say scientists. An examination of meteorites and rocks on the planet suggests that oxygen was affecting the Martian surface four billion years ago. On Earth, oxygen did not build up to appreciable quantities in the atmosphere for at least another 1.5bn years….
Mahyad Tousi is a creative producer, cinematographer, and self-proclaimed story junkie and his resume ranges from Hollywood blockbusters to documentaries. BoomGen is a storytelling factory that sits at the intersection of interactive media, entertainment, and education.
The history of the Universe from the Big Bang to its possible ends en Español from a conference in Bilbao on the 25th of May.
ASAP Science is an organization commited to helping you understand science in your own life. Their weekly videos cover “all sorts of quirky and mind blowing science.” Here, they have created a highly entertaining song and cartoon to guide you through the periodic table. Written, Directed, Produced, Edited and Sung by Mitchell Moffit. Based on…
There is an optimistic view of the unprecedented migration we are witnessing from rural to urban areas, and it’s that cities could offer the biggest hope for the survival of other species and ecosystems in the Anthropocene. Cities are entirely shaped and created by humans to protect and separate them from the natural world, allowing…
littleBIG History is an interactive timeline that lets you explore world history on an unprecedented scale – from the first miliseconds after big bang to the present and beyond. It places humanity in the large context of cosmos, earth and evolution of life. The app organizes links to Wikipedia entries and other resources via a chronological…
It’s Okay To Be Smart is a blog and a YouTube show about science. But it’s probably not about science the way you’re used to it. From the blogger and host, Joe Hanson, Ph.D: “I have a Ph.D in biology, and my mission in life is to tell the world about the awesomeness of ALL…
The story of how humans evolved from knuckle-walking primates to upright bipeds is still a matter of great debate among anthropologists. One of today’s leading theories suggests that our forest-dwelling ancestors began walking on two feet as climate change stripped away the trees they lived in, forcing them to move to the ground. Another explanation…
Over the next few months, chlorine will ensure that countless swimming pools don’t turn into microbe-choked petri dishes. That’s only one of many uses we’ve found for the element. We sprinkle it on our food as table salt — a k a sodium chloride. We pump water through pipes made of polyvinyl chloride. Perchlorate, a…
Researchers from the University of Chicago and several international institutions found that several groups of genes in humans and dogs—including those related to diet and digestion, neurological processes, and disease—have been evolving in parallel for thousands of years. This parallel evolution was likely driven by the shared environments of humans and dogs, wrote the authors…