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Jun Seong Yi Scientists Discovered a New Dinosaur Species in South Korea, and It’s Named After a Cartoon
Paleontologists in South Korea have identified a new dinosaur species and named it after a beloved Korean cartoon character.
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Asteroid Ryugu Asteroid Ryugu Is Carrying All 5 DNA Building Blocks of Life. Could There Be Another Earth in the Universe?
All five of the essential building blocks of DNA and RNA, known as nucleobases, exist on the asteroid Ryugu.
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DrPixel/Getty Images Is This Newly Discovered Alien Planet the Stinkiest Ever Found?
A team led by astronomers from the University of Oxford has identified a planet that, in theory, smells entirely of rotten eggs.
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Dr. Manfred Schartl/Texas A&M This Fish Can Clone Itself Without Any Weird Clone Defects
These fish have solved the evolutionary problem scientists assumed would wipe them out in the most science fiction way possible.
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Westeros and Middle-earth. Do Middle-earth and Westeros Have Realistic Weather? Climate Scientists Found Out.
The study is all in good fun, and the scientists hope that using fantasy settings helps make complex climate science easier to explain.
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Photo: Nils Jacobi / Getty Images Scientists Just Found a New Reason Cats Always Land on Their Feet
Which sounds about right, given everything we’ve seen about cats.
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Photo: bestdesigns / Getty Images Scientists Want to Put Lightning in a Tiny Box to Study Thunderstorms
Needless to say, this would be huge for atmospheric researchers and physicists.
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Photo: Katzke, J., Hita Garcia, F., Lösel, P.D. et al. / Nat Methods Scientists Scanned 2,000 Ants for a 3D Database, and the Results Are Pretty Creepy
Researchers hope that this technology can be used to build a massive compendium of all life itself.
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3I/ATLAS Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Can Get You Drunk
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has unexpectedly high levels of methanol, a simple alcohol molecule, in the cloud of gas surrounding the comet.
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Mint Images/Getty Images Are America’s Insects Dying Off?
Scientists are having a really hard time determining which insects in North America are at risk of extinction.
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Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images NASA’s Asteroid-Smashing Test Worked Even Better Than Expected
The impact didn’t just alter the asteroid’s local orbit. It slightly shifted the entire system’s path around the Sun.
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The Conversation Marsupial Found Alive After Being Thought Dead for 6,000 Years
The latest animal to rise from the not-so-dead is the Lazarus taxa. Researchers re-added its name to the list of creatures that are still alive.
