January 18, 2024

We’ve Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For The Last 300 Years

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we’d be

A Massive Amount of Water Ice Has Been Found on Mars, Lurking Beneath The Equator

The surface of Mars may appear barren and lifeless, but it seems the red planet is keeping quite a few

45,000-Year-Old Tools And Bones Reveal Earliest Evidence of Homo Sapiens in Eastern Asia

Fragments of ancient rock and bone in Eastern Asia are changing our understanding of the history of human migration. They’re

Physicists Design a Way to Detect Quantum Behavior in Large Objects, Like Us

Quantum science is usually concerned with ultra-small scales, where the mathematics of probability becomes a more useful tool than ‘classical’

Epic 600-Mile Travels of One Wooly Mammoth May Hold Clues to Their Extinction

About 14,000 years ago, the tusk of a 20-year-old female mammoth ended up at a campsite in Swan Point, Alaska.

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is Losing Ice Much, Much Faster Than We Thought

Climate change has caused Greenland’s ice sheet to lose 20 percent more ice than previously thought, according to research published