The goal will be to study the atmosphere and the land below, and NASA has an interesting location to target: what is believed ...
“A possible explanation lies in the fact that in humans, the focal point of the retina, the fovea centralis, is only 1.5 mm ...
Researchers have found links between oxygen delivery and reproductive success in ethnic Tibetan women living on the Tibetan ...
Nephrite is the second, and it’s more common and more widely used, probably because it’s the toughest. In fact, when it comes ...
The region is famous for larger dinosaur eggs, but the discovery shows theropods the size of small birds thrived at their ...
The key difference between tornadoes and cold air funnels is whether or not they touch the ground. Tornadoes very much do so ...
S ince the day of the Apollo missions, Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs) have become the quintessential spacesuits – but ...
Today we know them as geoglyphs, and while they’re found in various sites across the globe, Atacama is home to the largest ...
Although evidently capable of high levels of cognition, the octopus brain is radically different from any mammal or vertebrate animal. It features a vertical lobe, which plays a key role in learning, ...
The impact did not just trigger this enormous tsunami: It heated the atmosphere, boiled off the top layer of the ocean, and ...