How a YouTube video accidentally proved the existence of Libya’s ‘desert ghosts’
When a photographer uploaded a YouTube video showing a sand cat in Libya, it started a quest to scientifically document…
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admin 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…
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…
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…
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…
Fireball over New York City was a rare meteorite containing evidence of extraterrestrial water
A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024 is a rare, primitive space rock containing evidence of…
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,…
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…
Astronomers detect sugar in interstellar space for the first time
Astronomers detect erythrulose, a sugar key to the origins of life, in interstellar space for the first time.
Rare T. rex fossil sells for record $50.1 million at auction
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from South Dakota, nicknamed Gus, has become the world’s most expensive fossil sold at auction.