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How Crystals and Cosmic Rays Extend the Age of Humanity’s Ancestors by More Than One Million Years
July 19, 2022Through analysis of particles from space scientists may have pushed back the age of some of the oldest-known fossils of one of humanity's early ancestors, the hominid known as Australopithecus, by more than one million years. This discovery stands to... continued
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Stunning First Images
July 15, 2022On July 12, NASA released the first full images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), offering a deeper, more detailed look at a quintet of celestial phenomena. Aside from being 100 times more sensitive than the Hubble Space... continued
WHO Calls for Investigation Into Lab-leak as Possible Coronavirus Origin
July 13, 2022The World Health Organization group tasked with tracking down the origin of the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic is strongly recommending that a deeper investigation be made into the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have been released into... continued
The End of an Era: NASA Announces the Shutdown of Interstellar Voyager Probes
July 11, 2022NASA has announced that after nearly a half-century of studying the outer reaches of the Solar System—and beyond—the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes will be shut down over the course of the next few years. Although both probes... continued
Recent Findings Regarding Convergent Evolution May Mean Many of Our Evolutionary Trees Are Wrong
July 8, 2022The evolutionary trees that we use to define the relationships between different species could be very wrong, according to researchers that study the genetic connections between various species, both contemporary and extinct. These extended family trees connecting all living things... continued
A Hungry Jupiter May Have Cannibalized Many of the Solar System’s Early Planets
July 6, 2022A recent study has revealed that the planet Jupiter devoured numerous smaller planets in the early days of the Solar System's formation. This apparent cannibalism of its young siblings now sets to rest at least one debate regarding the formation... continued
A Baby Mammoth Has Been Recovered From the Arctic, Only the Second Such Find in History
July 1, 2022A well-preserved woolly mammoth calf has been excavated in the Canadian Arctic, the first time such a discovery has been made in North America, and only the second baby mammoth to be recovered in the world, an event that is... continued
Levels of Powerful Greenhouse Gas Methane Increased at a Record Rate Last Year
June 28, 2022The concentration of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere rose at a record-breaking rate in 2021, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), jumping by 17 parts per billion (ppb) over the course of the year, beating 2020's precipitous... continued
High-powered Lasers Could Cut the Half-life of Nuclear Waste From “A Million Years to 30 Minutes”
June 23, 2022Nuclear waste: the radioactive material left over from numerous medical, industrial and military applications can persist for millions of years before its atomic structure decays into a more stable element. Although the long-term storage of toxic byproducts can mostly keep... continued
China’s ‘Sky Eye’ Might Have Intercepted a Radio Signal from Space
June 20, 2022Radio astronomers in China have observed what they believe to be an artificial radio signal from another star system, a system that is home to an exoplanet with characteristics extremely similar to that of the Earth. The research team that... continued