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Thursday, April 18, 2019
It has already been known for a while that modern humans interbred with their relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans. However, an analysis of ancient DNA shows that the ancestry of Papuans consists of two distinct Denisovan lineages, with both of […]
This week was spectacular for astronomy and astrophysics with the first-ever photograph of a black hole being released. The incredible image has quickly spread around the world via social media. Katie Bouman, the woman behind the first photo of a […]
A group of researchers from around the world unearthed fossils in the Philippines that reveal a new hominid species, and in that way would expand the family tree of early humans. Their findings reveal that the region played an important […]
Last week the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project and the U.S. National Science Foundation teased a big conference which will follow an important announcement. Many had already predicted that it could be about black holes, and they weren’t wrong, as […]
Caves have fascinated humans for centuries. Experts estimate that the depth of a cave cannot be higher than 3,000 meters because of the pressure of the overlying rocks. Is there any cave going as deep as 3,000 meters? Such a […]
A group of researchers reconstructed a preserved fossil of a Cthulhu sea cucumber to find the connection between modern-day sea cucumbers and the Cthulhu which might have terrorized other small sea creatures millions of years ago. The preserved fossil from […]
Researchers developed the first-ever space weather model which can accurately predict space storms caused by high-energy particles. Those storms can be extremely harmful for satellites and other spacecraft researchers use for exploration. An accurate model for predicting space weather will […]
Lakes are water bodies surrounded by land. They do not connect to the sea. They are formed in mountainous regions, basins, rift zones, or from volcanoes and glaciation. They are mostly fed by melting snow, rivers, and rainfall. Here we […]
Both woolly mammoths and Neanderthals are long gone and the only information we can get about them are through skeletons and fossils. However, a new study sheds light on similar gene traits which could have been shared by both woolly […]
Researchers say climate change is melting glaciers faster than it was previously thought. A new study found that glaciers lose 369 billion tons of snow and ice per year. More than half of the ice and snow that’s lost each […]
