Was Facebook the original social network? Not by a long shot
Between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, people across early eastern and southern Africa left behind traces of an explosion of symbolic expression reflected in...
Climate change will lead to increase in kidney stones
In a new study from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers found rising temperatures due to climate change will lead to an increase in cases...
California earthquakes reveals how the Earth’s crust was damaged
In July 2019, a series of earthquakes including two major shocks of magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 a day apart struck near Ridgecrest, CA, between...
Scientists reveal the last day of the dinosaurs after asteroid impact
The asteroid which killed nearly all of the dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime.
This conclusion was drawn by an international team of researchers after having...
Shortest route suggested by GPS is not necessarily the safest, shows study
Time for a road trip.
You punch the destination into your GPS and choose the suggested route. But is this shortest route the safest?
Not necessarily,...
Everyone has heard of King Arthur, but 90% of medieval manuscripts of chivalric and...
New research finds that, while the Knights of the Round Table have won global fame, most medieval English heroic or chivalric stories have been...
This dinosaur era crab was sharp-eyed, speedy swimmer
With its adorable big eyes, this predator seemed more Disney than deadly.
A crab roughly the size of a quarter was found in the waters...
Scientists discover new fossil birds near China’s Great Wall
Approximately 80 miles from the westernmost reach of China’s Great Wall, paleontologists found relics of an even more ancient world.
Over the last two decades,...
What if a planet has a mind of its own?
The collective activity of life—all of the microbes, plants, and animals—have changed planet Earth.
Take, for example, plants: plants ‘invented’ a way of undergoing photosynthesis...
Almost all of earth’s natural coasts have disappeared
Only 15.5% of the Earth’s coastal areas remained ecologically intact as of 2013, researchers report.
The finding is the result of a study that for...