Brexit was 10,000 years in the making, Stanford historian says in new book
Many reasons have been advanced to explain why Britain voted to leave the European Union, but the fundamental reason has been overlooked, according to...
What a Martian meteorite can teach us about Earth’s origins
What do Mars and Iceland have in common?
These days, not so much.
But more than 4.5 billion years ago, it’s possible the Red Planet had...
Hopping space dust makes asteroids look rougher
Like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids, according to a new...
Scientists find life’s power generators in the Earth’s oldest groundwaters
Scientists have discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater deep in a gold- and uranium-producing mine in Moab Khotsong, South Africa, shedding more light on how life is...
Is Boris Johnson’s downfall an omen for Donald Trump?
Allegations of sexual misconduct by one of his senior officials forced the resignation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday.
It was a surprising...
Why does the inside of the solar system not spin faster
The motion of a tiny number of charged particles may solve a longstanding mystery about thin gas disks rotating around young stars, according to...
Scientists find rare wild ancestors of feral pigeons on British and Irish islands
Researchers led by members of Oxford University's Department of Biology have found rare colonies of the wild ancestors of common domestic and feral pigeons.
Already...
Tonga volcano eruption triggered atmospheric gravity waves that reached the edge of space
The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai on 15 January 2022 created waves that reverberated around the earth and reached 100km into the ionosphere.
The eruption...
Extreme heat waves may increase death in heart disease
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania found that extreme heat waves have a deadly connection with cardiovascular mortality.
The research is published in JAMA Network...
Dinosaurs took over amid ice, not warmth, shows mass extinction study
Many of us know the conventional theory of how the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago:
In Earth’s fiery collision with a meteorite, and a...