About 530 million years ago, life, which was still in its infancy, experienced an unprecedented revolution called the Cambrian explosion. Suddenly, and for reasons that remain a mystery, all kinds of living beings emergedā¦
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Deep in the Indian Ocean, just where the seafloor drops away into a great depression, lies a 'gravity hole' measuring more than three million square kilometers. A vast area with the lowest gravitational pull on the entire planet, a 'gravity hole'ā¦
Quiet, please! Neuroscience has shown that the absence of noise is essential for us to concentrate, learn, strengthen our memory, create our inner world, and recharge our batteries, but until now, it was unknown how the brain achieves thisā¦
The final flight of the Ariane 5 rocket, scheduled for launch Tuesday from Kourou, French Guiana, has been postponed for 24 hours due to adverse weather conditions, Arianespace announced in a statement. "Due to adverse winds at high altitudesā¦
More than a century ago, Einstein predicted in his general theory of relativity that the distant universe, and therefore the oldest, should "work" much more slowly than the current one. But no one had been able to verify this experimentally untilā¦
The European Space Agency (ESA), together with the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat), published this Monday the first animations of the lightning detector on board the first third-generation Meteosat satelliteā¦
Galaxies aren't distributed randomly throughout the universe. They don't just gather together to form groups (clusters and superclusters), they also line up, all in a row, in long strands of light that crisscross to form a huge, filamentary structureā¦
The full moon shining in the dark, clear sky of a summer night is, for many, one of nature's most beautiful sights. But if there's one time when this satellite is even more visually spectacular, it's when...
Scorpions, bees, wasps, ants, beetles, jellyfish, rays, and spiderfish all have a stinger in their anatomy. It's a piercing organ or part of the body used to capture prey or as a method of defenseā¦
Contemporary accounts describe Neil Armstrong as a serious and focused man. "I never saw him nervous," his fellow astronaut Charles Duke stated in an interview. It has also been said that Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong's companion on the first visitā¦