55,000-year-old partial skull provides clues to human Africa-to-Europe migration
An international team of European, Israeli and North American researchers has discovered a 55,000-year-old partial skull which provides clues to the migration of modern...
Snake fossil discovery changing how we think they originated
The discovery by an international team of researchers of fossilized remains of four ancient snakes between 140 and 167 million years old will change...
Easter Island Rapa Nui culture decline started before Europeans arrived
Did the native Polynesian culture of Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui, start declining before the Europeans arrived in 1722, or had their demise started...
Fossil of robust ancient human jawbone found off coast of Taiwan
A four-inch long fossilized jawbone of an ancient human with particularly large teeth from between 130,000 and 190,000 years ago was dredged up by fishermen...
Five Earth-size planets discovered orbiting 11.2 billion year-old star
Scientists who were sifting through four years’ worth of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft discovered an 11.2-billion-year-old star with at least five Earth-size planets...
US blizzard storm development witnessed by satellite
Meteorologists at the National Weather Service have been monitoring a low pressure area that moved from the USA’s Midwest into the Atlantic Ocean and...
How do you unboil an egg? You untangle the proteins and let them refold
American and Australian scientists have worked out how to unboil an egg, specifically the egg white. You pull apart tangled proteins and allow them...
Asteroid that flew close to Earth has its own moon
The asteroid that zipped past Earth on January 26th has its own small moon, according to radar images taken from NASA’s 230-foot-wide Deep Space...
Martian helicopter drone will scout ahead of ground-bound rover
NASA believes a helicopter drone flying around as a scout for the ground-bound rover would help the six-wheeled vehicle work more effectively. According to...
Asteroid that killed off dinosaurs did not cause vast global firestorms
The asteroid that created the Chicxulubt crater in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and is believed to have led to the extinction of dinosaurs...