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A New Way to Listen to Extinct Languages
Languages are like species. They evolve in mostly predictable ways, splitting into new species or dying out over time....
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Dinosaur Extinction & Chicxulub Asteroid Impact Most Likely Coincided, Study Says
The idea that a cosmic impact ended the age of dinosaurs in what is now Mexico now has fresh...
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Half-Million-Year-Old Human Jawbone Found
Scientists have unearthed a jawbone from an ancient human ancestor in a cave in Serbia. The jawbone, which may...
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Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are king’s
A skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park has been confirmed as that of English king Richard III. Experts...
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You May Have Been Born to Flock
More than 70,000 people will flood into the Superdome in New Orleans this weekend, while thousands more swarm through...
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Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to ‘Long Data’
Our species can’t seem to escape big data. We have more data inputs, storage, and computing resources than ever,...
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Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’
What is biological immortality? To be fair, it’s not the promise of a paradisiacal garden. Neither is it the...
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NASA Joins ESA Hunt for Dark Energy and Matter
NASA and the European Space Agency announced that the two organizations have partnered on the ESA’s Euclid mission. This...
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Ancient Ice Cores Give Clues to Effects of Global Warming
A new study indicates that the last interglacial period may give us a picture of where the planet is...