Under the direction of Brent Tully, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, an international team of researchers has just discovered an immense bubble of galaxies that, according to an article recently published in 'The Astrophysical Journal', could be a…
Japan launched the Moon Sniper mission this morning with the purpose of being the fifth country to place a robot on the Moon and in the process compensate for a series of mishaps in its space program. The rocket also carries a research satellite…
In 1959, when scientists were working at a 1.4 million-year-old site in Ubeidiya, northern Israel, they were absolutely perplexed by the presence of almost 600 stone spheres just a few centimeters in diameter (between…
Clothing with vertical stripes or monochrome can make us look slimmer. They are optical illusions that we have all heard about or applied at some point. But there is a very curious thing that probably no one has in mind when it comes to dressing and that affects…
A team of researchers from the Beijing Academy of Sciences has discovered one of the first ancestors of birds in Fujian (China). Named Fujianvenator prodigiosus, this unusual species of dinosaur is the size of a pheasant and has long legs…
Neuroscience is in luck. And the reason is that the two large families that make up the brain, neurons and glial cells, hid a third cell type. A hybrid cell, halfway between the two previous classes and that ends…
Between 813,000 and 930,000 years ago, the direct ancestors of our species reduced their numbers so much that they practically became extinct. Which would have meant that Homo sapiens, we, would never have come to exist and humans act...
Since he dominated agriculture and livestock, man has been trying to domesticate and change nature as he pleases for millennia: the tomatoes we eat today have little to do with the wild tomatoes they once were; or our pets per…
The Pentagon has opened a new Internet portal for pilots, controllers and other related professionals to submit reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). AARO.mil, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office website, is still…
The Indian Pragyan rover, the first spacecraft to reach the south pole of the Moon, shut down last Saturday after completing its two-week mission conducting experiments. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft rover is “in sleep mode…
