Category: 9. Sci/Tech

The first full moon of spring, called the “Pink Moon,” will soon ascend in the night sky. Curious onlookers can expect to catch a glimpse of the full moon’s peak at 8:22 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on April 12, 2025, yet the lack of a…

We’ve all been there: You’re hanging with a group of friends (either in real time or virtual), and one casually mentions doing something with the other — but neither explicitly mentions you. You’re faced with a dilemma. Inviting yourself…

Modern rhinos aren’t Nebraskan animals. And they aren’t North American animals, either. But millions of years ago, rhinos were. In the Middle Miocene, Teleoceras major rhinos lived across Nebraska and across much of North America, too.

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The Caspian Sea, considered the largest inland body of water on the planet, is shrinking. A new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment reports that as global temperatures rise, the Caspian Sea will start to go dry,…

This Saturday, the April full moon, known as the Pink Moon, will rise in the eastern sky just after sunset, offering a beautiful and slightly misleading name. Though it won’t glow pink, this full moon brings a great view worth…

A jawbone found on the ocean floor near Taiwan provides evidence that the Denisovans — a poorly understood ancestor to modern humans — occupied southeast Asia 100,000 years ago. DNA extracted and analyzed from it has evolutionary…

If you’ve ever skimmed the ingredient list of your favorite snacks or drinks, you’ve probably stumbled across a string of unfamiliar words — potassium polyphosphate, acesulfame-K, sulphite ammonia caramel, and more — that offer little…

Analysis of a perfect jawbone found in Taiwan has given us new clues to the Denisovans, an enigmatic people with whom our ancestors had relations.

Once upon a time, Homo sapiens wasn’t the only human species walking the planet. We shared this…

Just a stone’s throw from the centre of Tikal – the vast Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala – archaeologists have unearthed a chilling new clue to one of the most turbulent periods in ancient Mesoamerican history. 

At the heart…