The latest study proposes three candidates for the start of the Anthropocene, but argues that the 1950s was the most likely ...

"This is WILD. This is an 'emission line' from hydrogen gas, where an electron drops down an energy level and gives off a photon of a specific ultraviolet energy," astronomer Kevin Hainline, author on ...

B uilt and designed over 50 years ago, the Soviet K-222 submarine still holds the record for the world's fastest submarine ...

Neanderthals have always been human, technically, in the sense they belong to the genus of great apes known as Homo alongside ...

Such is the story behind a new dinosaur species, named Labocania aguillonae, whose dramatic discovery took place in – well, a ...

Located in northeastern Florida, the city was founded all the way back in 1565 – 20 years before Roanoke and 42 years before ...

A nova is a temporary brightening of an old white dwarf. This aged stellar remnant steals material from a companion, ...

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The question remains whether the proposal will give new life to the former site, or be a ghost of its former self.

Crawford explains that “banana flowers are narrow tubes,” adding, “In consumer varieties, the fruit grows from the ovary deep ...

“Unlike other numbers such as one, two or three, which represent countable quantities, zero means the absence of something ...

Taken together, these findings suggest that humans cut up Yuka’s body for meat before she became frozen 39,000 years ago. As ...