Category: 9. Sci/Tech

When Napoleon and his legion of multinational soldiers retreated from Russia in 1812 in the face of dwindling supplies and fierce Russian resistance, little did they know how much worse was yet to come.

While withdrawing from Russia, at least…

Our gut microbiomes do it all. They speed our digestion; they shape our mood; and they train our immune systems. They even replace our cells — or at least, their byproducts do, as recent research reveals that the microbial metabolites that are…

A new species of plesiosauroid — a group of long-necked marine reptiles — has just come to the surface in Germany’s Posidonia Shale fossil beds.

This 183 million-year-old plesiosauroid lived during the Age of Dinosaurs (252 million years to…

Can you teach an old Mars rover new tricks? NASA says the answer is a resounding…

Not all giant theropods had a strong bite, and skull evolution played a major part in that. 

A new study in Current Biology analyzes the skulls of 18 large prehistoric predators, including the Tyrannosaurus rex, the spinosaurs, and allosaurs, and…

Key Takeaways on the Middle of the Milky Way

• The supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A* lies in the middle of the Milky Way.

• Observations of S2 and other stars also helped astronomers calculate the extraordinary size and mass of Sagittarius…

Scientists have finally unravelled the decade-long mystery behind the devastating epidemic…

The remains of animals dating back more than 10,000 years have…

A collection of dinosaur teeth hailing back to the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods has given scientists a new window into the world’s prehistoric climate.

By studying an isotope of oxygen in the fossils to infer atmospheric carbon dioxide…

The remains of animals dating back more than 10,000 years have…