October 2022 - Science News

85 Years After It Was Abandoned, Explorers Find a Historic Cache of Camera Gear

In 1937, legendary aerial photographer and cartographer Bradford Washburn abandoned hundreds of pounds of camera gear, surveying equipment, and supplies

‘Potentially Hazardous’ Monster Asteroid Is The Largest Seen in Years

Astronomers peering into the twilight sky have found three previously unknown near-Earth asteroids. One of which is the largest potentially

Scientists Just Discovered an Entirely New Way of Measuring Time

Marking the passage of time in a world of ticking clocks and swinging pendulums is a simple case of counting

Ancient Snail From 99 Million Years Ago Discovered With Hairs Growing on Shell

A snail preserved in amber with an intact fringe of tiny delicate bristles along its shell is helping biologists better

Ancient Traces of a Giant Ocean Have Just Been Discovered on Mars

You’ll no doubt be familiar with the dry, dusty appearance of Mars as it looks today – but scientists have

The Last Maya City Reveals a Trove of Buried Secrets And Spanish Bullets

Ceramics, human burial grounds, and bullets from Spanish guns are among artifacts that have been uncovered by archaeologists in Guatemala

Destroyed Observatory Issues Final Asteroid Warning After Fatal Collapse

After collapsing into pieces in December 2020, the mighty Arecibo Observatory has a final parting gift for humanity – and

Haunting Audio Reveals The Spooky Sound of Earth’s Magnetic Field

The European Space Agency (ESA) this week released 5 minutes of haunting, crackling audio – revealing what Earth’s magnetic field

The Surreal Mystery of Namibia’s ‘Fairy Circles’ May Finally Be Solved

Sprawling across a remote swath of the Namib Desert, rugged grasses eke out a living from the region’s meager rainfall.

Paranormal or Psychology? The ‘Spooky’ Science Behind Ouija Boards

Despite being around for more than 100 years, Ouija boards (a wooden board covered with the letters of the alphabet,

Scientists Think They’ve Cracked The Mystery of This Cute Octopus And Its ‘Shell’

Long after its ancestors deleted their genetic code for a tough coat of armor, a seafaring octopus has reinvented a

Deep Rumbles on Mars Hint at Volcanic Magma Seething Below The Surface

Rumbles detected deep inside Mars have promoted speculations over volcanic activity on the red planet from “possible” to “likely”. After

We’ve Caught Aye-Aye Using Its Wacky Long Finger For Something Pretty Gnarly

It’s a classic nightmare. You think you’re having a cheeky, sneaky pick-and-flick (or lick, although you probably shouldn’t), only to

Almost Half of Earth’s Vital Signs Are Now ‘Code Red’, Scientists Warn

A new report from a coalition of international scientists is unequivocal about the severity of the environmental crisis that we’re

NASA Spotted The Sun Smiling, And It’s The Most Joyous Thing

Sometimes an unexpected smile is all it takes to turn your day around. Well, that kind of cheery surprise doesn’t

Mysterious ‘Blip’ Detected Near The Titanic Decades Ago Finally Identified

Paul Henry Nargeolet has dived down to the Titanic shipwreck more often than most. More than 30 times in total,

Mars Shaken by Meteorite Impact That Dug Up a Pleasant Surprise

A meteor crashed into Mars on Christmas Eve 2021, and shook the planet so much that NASA’s InSight lander recorded

We Thought These Animals Were Silent. Scientists Just Found Their Voices

Commonly assumed to be silent, 53 animals have had their ‘voices’ added to a family tree of vocalizations in an

This Incredible Photo of an Ant’s Face Is Like Something Out of a Nightmare

You’ve most likely never seen an ant like this before: in an ultra-closeup, Lithuanian photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas snapped a shot

‘Time Cells’ in The Human Brain Encode The Flow of Time, Scientists Say

How does the human brain keep track of the order of events in a sequence? Research suggests that ‘time cells’

Many Baby Sea Turtles Never Make It to The Sea. This Genius Idea Could Save Them

Playing with my children on a beach on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, I

Hubble Found an Eerie ‘Cosmic Keyhole’ Deep in Space And We’re in Awe

When it comes to dramatic and awe-inspiring pictures of space, few can contend with what appears to be a pic

NASA Detects More Than 50 Methane ‘Super-Emitter’ Zones Around The World

NASA scientists, using a tool designed to study how dust affects climate, have identified more than 50 spots around the

NASA’s Lucy Probe Shows The Vast Space Between Us And The Moon

Below is a picture of Earth and the Moon. Our planet is obvious, on the far right side of the

Ancient Traces of Life May Still Linger on Mars, Experiment Suggests

Here on Earth, life finds a way in some of our most extreme and unlikely environments, so it’s possible that

Mummified Baby From Centuries Ago May Have Died From Lack of Sunlight

For centuries, the crypt of one of the oldest aristocratic families in Austria has preserved a tragic secret. A boy,

Tree Rings Chronicle a Mysterious Cosmic Storm That Strikes Every Thousand Years

The history of Earth’s bombardment with cosmic radiation is written in the trees. Specifically, when radiation slams into Earth’s atmosphere,

Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Found in Melting Tibetan Glaciers

Ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of melting permafrost, almost like something out of a horror movie. From

Mystery of Earth’s Missing Mineral Has Been Solved in a Hot New Experiment

Peering down through the layers that make up Earth – the crust, the upper mantle, the lower mantle, and the

New Study Suggests Aliens Don’t Visit Us Because Our Sun Is Too Boring

The Fermi Paradox won’t go away. It’s one of our most compelling thought experiments, and generations of scientists keep wrestling

This Tentacled Microbe Is So Rare, It’s Only Been Found Four Times

You are more likely to take a trip to the Moon than to see a microbe called Legendrea loyezae under

Oldest Human DNA in UK Reveals Ancient Peoples Emerging From The Ice Age

Around 27,000 years ago, an immense sheet of ice coated two-thirds of the British Isles, making the region less than

Mysterious Object May Be a ‘Strange Star’ Made Out of Quarks, Scientists Say

A relatively small, dense object cloaked within a cloud of its own exploded remains just a few thousand light-years away

Boosted Brain Activity Observed in Children Who Play Video Games

Parents often worry about the harmful impacts of video games on their children, from mental health and social problems to

A Single Laser Transmitted a Second’s Worth of Internet Traffic in Record Time

Scientists continue to blow through data transmission records, with the fastest transmission of information between a laser and a single

Cats Do Hear You When You’re Talking to Them Sweetly (They Just Don’t Care)

If your cat isn’t responding to your calls of adoration, you might want to consider whether they are just ignoring

New Report Lists 5 Reasons to Think Plastic Recycling Is a “Failed Concept”

Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted

New Technique For Decoding People’s Thoughts Can Now Be Done From a Distance

Scientists can now “decode” people’s thoughts without even touching their heads, The Scientist reported. Past mind-reading techniques relied on implanting