Teeth can tell researchers a lot about the past. (Credit: sruilk/shutterstock)
Childhood wasn’t easy for Neanderthals.
A new study of Neanderthal teeth published in Science Advances this week tells us new details about what life might have been like for early hominin children in a rapidly changing environment. It’s an unprecedented look into how our ancient cousins coped with harsh climate conditions and seasonal changes in resource availability.
Also among the findings ...read more
An illustration of NASA’s Lucy spacecraft. (Credit: SwRI)
From Ryugu to Bennu, asteroid exploration has been all the rage among astronomers lately. And now, we’re one step closer to exploring some of the most mysterious asteroids in the solar system.
On October 30, NASA announced that they’ve been given the green light to start building Lucy, a spacecraft that will probe Jupiter’s trojan asteroids and is set to launch in October of 2021. On top of giving the g ...read more
Source: NASA Earth Observatory.
Seriously, this gargantuan coffin-like object really was photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station on September 23, 2018.
If you guessed that it is an iceberg, you are right.
A broader view of B-15T, from NASA’s Terra Satellite. (Source: NASA Earth Observatory)
Known rather unimaginatively as B-15T, the spooky, Brobdingnagian berg is seen here adrift in the South Atlantic Ocean between South Georgia ...read more
David Mzee, 28, a patient in the study, learns to walk again thanks to electrical stimulation. (Credit: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
A spinal cord injury used to mean life bound to a wheelchair. Now, three spinal cord injury patients are able to walk and even ride a modified bicycle, new research shows. The trio got on their feet again thanks to well-timed and precise electrical stimulation in the spinal cord combined with rehabilitation. The results are just ...read more
The Andromeda galaxy, which researchers think will collide with the Milky Way in billions of years. One new study shows how our galaxy was shaped by a merger with a dwarf galaxy 10 billion years ago. (Credit: NASA JPL)
Our galaxy, perhaps like many in the universe, is a bit of a Frankenstein’s monster. A new study makes a compelling case that a central structure in the Milky Way is actually composed mostly of stars born in another galaxy, brought to us by a long-ago galactic smash-u ...read more
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