Science

Researchers have discovered the fossil of a mysterious marine reptile from 150 million years ago belongs to a previously undiscovered species. The well-preserved reptile was found in a Late Jurassic deep marine deposit along the English Channel coastline in Dorset. Dr. Steve Etches discovered these groundbreaking fossilized remains buried head-first in...

The Great American Eclipse of August 2017 left a ‘wake’ in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, the way a ship does when it moves through water. The phenomenon has been theorized about, but never before detected, according to Gizmodo. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Haystack Observatory and the University...

Remember that time you were out with some friends and tripped on a curb, but it definitely had nothing to do with the fact that you’d been drinking all night because you’re just clumsy all the time? Your phone knew it was the booze. But imagine if instead of just...

An amateur fossil hunter has unearthed a new type of prehistoric 'sea dragon' on the beach of the UK's Dorset coast. The new 2m-long ichthyosaurus is named 'Etches sea dragon', after fossil collector Dr Steve Etches MBE, who found it buried head-first in limestone. Ichthyosaurs are called sea dragons for...

An astrophysicist at the University of Bologna and a neurosurgeon at the University of Verona compared the network of neuronal cells in the human brain with the cosmic network of galaxies... and surprising similarities emerged In their paper published in Frontiers in Physics, Franco Vazza (astrophysicist at the University of...

A bird has been tracked making a mammoth journey of over 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) from Alaska to New Zealand without a single break, setting a new world record for the longest logged continuous flight by a bird. The bar-tailed godwit, known as 4BBRW, set off from southwestern Alaska on...

An Israeli veterinarian has discovered a Bronze Age Egyptian artifact engraved with hieroglyphs on the seafloor off the Israeli coast. Rafi Bahalul is a 55 years old veterinarian and artist from the village of Ein Hod, who one morning last year was taking his constitutional morning swim along Israel’s northern...

A New Study of Dead Suns Finds How Life on Earth Might Not Exist Without Them. A new analysis of white dwarf stars supports their role as a key source of carbon, an element crucial to all life, in the Milky Way and other galaxies. Approximately 90 percent of all stars...

A northern Ontario photography enthusiast captured two celestial events, aurora borealis and Comet NEOWISE, in one breathtaking time-lapse video. Christina Emond has been capturing nature and wildlife in northeastern Ontario for more than four years as a hobby. This week, she set up her Canon Rebel T7 camera with an 18...

NASA's first asteroid sampling spacecraft is making final preparations to grab a sample from asteroid Bennu's surface. Next week, the OSIRIS-REx mission will conduct a second rehearsal of its touchdown sequence, practicing the sample collection activities one last time before touching down on Bennu this fall. On Aug. 11, the...