Glimpse what life was like for survivors of the Pompeii disaster
A new docuseries and ongoing research are revealing that survivors charted a fresh start after an eruption devastated the ancient Roman city.
Category: Science
Bronze Age ‘shaman,’ previously assumed to be a male metalworker, was actually a woman
Bronze Age remains once thought to belong to a revered male metalworker are in fact female, new DNA analysis has found, calling into question long-hel…
Pluto flyby mission wakes up after long sleep nearly 6 billion miles from Earth
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently came out of hibernation to continue its journey through an unexplored part of the solar system.
Monkey with orange lips identified as newfound species
A new species of monkey with distinctive orange lips and a deep roaring call has been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
A ‘forbidden experiment,’ two moonshots and the invasive species ravaging the Great Lakes
Nearly 70 years ago, a moonshot project contained the threat of sea lampreys. Could another moonshot save the Great Lakes from invasive mussels?
Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years
New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness, not murder.
A chance encounter led to one of the largest T. rexes ever found. Now, it could be ‘lost to science’
A large T. rex skeleton nicknamed ‘Gus’ is on track to break auction records, and highlight one of paleontology’s biggest predicaments.
Mystery spheres on beach are likely space debris that fell back to Earth
Metal spheres recently found on a beach in northern Queensland, Australia, draw attention to the worsening issue of space pollution.
Fossils reveal the earliest animal with a head was also the oldest known ‘righty’
Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in modern animals that are ri…
Elon Musk’s plans refer to an idea conceived in the 1960s. What is the Kardashev scale?
A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is still coming up today.
