Research reveals why people pick certain campsites
Those in love with the outdoors can spend their entire lives chasing that perfect campsite.
New University of Montana research suggests what they are trying...
Volcanic rock could help produce ‘greener’ concrete
Replacing just one of concrete’s main ingredients with volcanic rock could slash carbon emissions from manufacturing the material by nearly two-thirds, according to a...
More than 70% of world’s sharks died 19 million years ago
Researchers have discovered a massive die-off of sharks roughly 19 million years ago.
It came at a period in history when there were more than...
Young Tyrannosaurus rexes had a mighty strong bite
When they bit down, young Tyrannosaurus rexes exerted up to 5,641 newtons of force, somewhere between the jaw forces exerted by a hyena and...
Meet Australia’s largest dinosaur — Australotitan, the southern titan!
What's as long a basketball court, taller than a b-double and has just stomped into the record books as Australia's largest dinosaur?
It's time to...
Humans may have set foot in North America 20,000 years earlier than thought
An unexpected discovery by an Iowa State University researcher suggests that the first humans may have arrived in North America more than 30,000 years...
What causes the deep earth’s most mysterious earthquakes?
The cause of Earth’s deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a century, but a team of Carnegie scientists may...
Young Tyrannosaurus rexes were deadly despite bite force one-sixth that of adults
Jack Tseng loves bone-crunching animals — hyenas are his favorite — so when paleontologist Joseph Peterson discovered fossilized dinosaur bones that had teeth marks...
Fossil secret may shed light on the diversity of Earth’s first animals
A large group of iconic fossils widely believed to shed light on the origins of many of Earth's animals and the communities they lived...
Space junk: Houston, we have a problem
Humans have left an absolute mess in space but no one wants to clean it up.
When we think of space, we think big and...