‘Spirits Won’t Rest’: DNA Links Ancient Bones to Living Aboriginal ...
Museums around the world hold the remains of Aboriginal Australians, many of them stolen. Now geneticists may have […]
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Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions by ...
The real journey to the center of the Earth has begun, and scientists are discovering subsurface microbial beings […]
Watch a Robotic Hand Play the Piano With a More ...
It hasn’t mastered Chopin or Debussy, but it can eke out a decent “Jingle Bells.” Published: December 19, […]
A Rainbow Geminid Meteor
Meteors can be colorful. While the human eye usually cannot discern many colors, cameras often can. Pictured is […]
Albinism Strips Pigment From the Body, Including the Eyes by ...
The pigment shortage may cause eyes to appear pink or red. In fact, the coloring results from exposed […]
The Earth’s Shell Has Cracked, and We’re Drifting on the ...
Plate tectonics helped make our planet stable and habitable. But slow peregrination of continents is still a mysterious […]
Methane Bubbles Frozen in Lake Baikal
What are these bubbles frozen into Lake Baikal? Methane. Lake Baikal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Russia, […]
It’s the Solar System’s Most Distant Object. Astronomers Named It ...
Orbiting 11 billion miles from the sun, this tiny world offers additional clues in the search for the […]
Feathers and Fur Fly Over Pterosaur Fossil Finding by NICHOLAS ...
An analysis of two fossils would push back the origins of feathers by about 70 million years, but […]
Saturn With No Rings? It Could Happen, and Sooner Than ...
The “ring rain” that falls into the gas giant is so abundant that the icy bands could disappear […]