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...
Scientists find way to recycle rare earth elements in waste
Rare earth elements are hard to get and hard to recycle, but a flash of intuition led scientists toward a possible solution.
The Rice lab...
Scientists decode the Earth’s inner core
Earth's core, the deepest part of our planet, is characterized by extremely high pressure and temperature.
It is composed of a liquid outer core and...
These fossils add a missing link to crocodile evolution
A set of Triassic archosaur fossils, excavated in the 1960s in Tanzania, have been formally recognised as a distinct species.
It represents one of the...
Scientists find never-before-seen mechanism fueling huge aurorae at Saturn
Leicester space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fueling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn.
Saturn is unique among planets observed to date in that some...