How greenspace and parks can boost your health
Scientists from North Carolina State University found how parks and green spaces can help alleviate contemporary health challenges.
The research is published in the North Carolina Medical...
Prehistoric people created art by firelight, shows study
Our early ancestors probably created intricate artwork by firelight, an examination of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed.
The stones were incised with...
Flying relatives of dinosaurs could control their feather colors, shows study
Palaeontologists have discovered remarkable new evidence that pterosaurs, the flying relatives of dinosaurs, were able to control the colour of their feathers using melanin...
How to detect modern-day slavery from the sky
Combining artificial intelligence with low-cost satellite imagery, researchers at Stanford’s Human Trafficking Data Lab have developed a system to spot forced labor at deforestation...
Why the Moon has two different faces?
The face that the Moon shows to Earth looks far different from the one it hides on its far side.
The nearside is dominated by...
Injured dinosaur in Spain left some unusual footprints behind
A set of dinosaur footprints in Spain has unusual features because the dinosaur that made the tracks had an injured foot.
The study was published...
According to NASA’s Perseverance rover, Mars is quiet… too quiet
If you want to hear what Mars has to say, you’re going to have to listen closely. Very closely.
It’s not that there isn’t any...
Chaos terrains may get oxygen into Europa’s hidden ocean
Salt water within the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa could be transporting oxygen into an ice-covered ocean of liquid water where it could...
Snowpack changes how a California volcano ‘breathes’
Thirty years ago, on the flanks of a volcano in California’s Sierra Nevada range, trees began to die en masse, suffocated at their roots...
Why are the arms of Tyrannosaurus rex so ridiculously short
Over the two decades paleontologist Kevin Padian taught a freshman seminar called The Age of Dinosaurs, one question asked frequently by undergraduates stuck with...