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...
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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…
A study tests the ability of an engineered microbe to identify tumor mutations early
An Earth-like planet could be hidden in the outer solar system. And, according to two Japanese researchers in 'The Astronomical Journal', its presence could help explain some strange properties of the Kuiper belt, a…
How can a planet the size of Neptune be denser than steel? That is the question that an international team of astronomers, led by Luca Naponiello, from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, had to face after discovering TOI-1…
The origin of the water on our satellite is unknown, but the process of deciphering it will provide clues as to how it came to Earth.
Insects have successfully conquered most environments, in fact, they were the first animals capable of flight. They achieved it back in the Carboniferous, between 350 and 400 million years ago. At that time the immense hel forests…
Avi Loeb is a researcher of unquestionable prestige. He headed the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University for almost a decade, writing hundreds of scientific papers on black holes, dark matter, and the fate of…