ScienceArchaeology Here’s One Malady You Share With Ancient Egyptian Scribes 69 male skeletons from an Egyptian necropolis reveal that hunching over to write caused just as much pain in ancient times. By Isaac Schultz Published June 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceAnimals Delightful Comedy Wildlife Photos Show the Lighter Side of Mother Nature From bears to birds, the brutal circle of life occasionally begets moments of anthropomorphic levity. By Isaac Schultz Published June 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight The Latest Threat to the Ozone Layer: Elon’s Starlink Satellite Megaconstellation The reentry of defunct satellites is anticipated to increase the amount of harmful chemicals in the atmosphere by nearly 650% over natural levels. By Passant Rabie Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight ISS Astronauts Forced to Take Shelter After Russian Satellite Mysteriously Disintegrates The defunct satellite broke apart into more than 100 pieces, raising speculation that it may be the result of an anti-satellite missile test. By Passant Rabie Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePaleontology New Research Casts Doubt on What Killed the Last Living Mammoth The last mammoths on Earth survived centuries of genetic drift before dying out some 4,000 years ago, but the ultimate cause of their demise remains unknown. By Isaac Schultz Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace Trippy NASA Visualization Takes You on a Journey Through the Iconic Pillars of Creation The 3D visualization is the most detailed multi-wavelength video of the massive celestial structure. By Passant Rabie Published June 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceAnimals Scientists Inject Radioactive Material Into Live Rhino Horns Making Them Poisonous to Humans The poached horns will also set off alarms built for finding nuclear bombs around the world. By Matt Novak Published June 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s ISS Spacesuit Situation Turns Grim After recent frustrations with postponed spacewalks, a key partner for developing new ISS spacesuits for NASA has pulled out, adding insult to injury. By Passant Rabie Updated June 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Following State Abortion Bans, Birth Control Use Is Plummeting Prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraception have declined more in states that passed abortion bans following Dobbs , new research shows. By Ed Cara Published June 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Next Gen Weight Loss Drugs Are Coming for Ozempic’s Throne Dozens of obesity and diabetes treatments are in the pipeline, some of which may help people lose even more weight than existing drugs like semaglutide. By Ed Cara Published June 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Launches Critical Weather Satellite The rocket took flight on Tuesday, on a course to deliver NOAA's GOES-U satellite to geostationary transfer orbit. By Passant Rabie Updated June 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Is Being Sued for Dropping Space Junk on a Florida Home The space agency tossed a massive pallet of old batteries from the ISS, and a piece of it fell through a family's roof. By Passant Rabie Published June 24, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Chinese Rocket Seen Falling on a Village Was Spewing Highly Toxic Chemicals Frightening video shows what appears to be the rocket booster crashing down on a populated area, trailed by a yellow-ish cloud. By Passant Rabie Published June 24, 2024 | Comments (0)
Science Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You Survive the Hunger Games? In this brainteaser, you must correctly guess the color of your hat—or you're doomed. By Jack Murtagh Published June 24, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth A Simple Change Could Make Blood Oranges Even Cooler A study out of the University of Florida explores cooling the fruits — both literally and figuratively By Harri Weber Published June 23, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives If an extraterrestrial warp drive collapses, we might be able to sense the resulting gravitational waves from Earth. By George Dvorsky Published June 22, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace A Bonus ‘Hitchhiker’ Will Come Back From Mars in Perseverance’s Sample Tubes Additional space in the tubes containing Martian rock could reveal insights into the gases that make up the Red Planet's atmosphere. By Isaac Schultz Published June 21, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth How to Avoid ‘Fauxzempic,’ According to WHO Experts The UN agency has received reports of medication falsified to look like the diabetes and weight loss drug Ozempic in at least 3 countries, including the U.S. By Ed Cara Published June 21, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceArchaeology Well-Preserved Bronze Age Shipwreck ‘Changes Our Entire Understanding’ of Ancient Mariners The vessel was found far from land, challenging previous assumptions about the seafaring capabilities of its Bronze Age builders. By Isaac Schultz Published June 21, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePaleontology Meet ‘Loki,’ the Triceratops Relative With the Most Unbelievable Frill Horns Lokiceratops rangiformis made its home in parts of what's now northern Montana and is thought to have the largest frill horns ever seen among its kind to date. By Ed Cara Published June 20, 2024 | Comments (0)
