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Laurent Emmanuel/Contributor/Getty Images The Moon Is Shrinking. Here’s What That Means for the Future.
The moon, it seems, is most definitely shrinking. And that means it’s going to be experiencing a lot more tectonic activity in its future.
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Deep Sea Research Centre/inkfish/Kelpie Geoscience A Shark Was Filmed in Antarctic Waters for the First Time Ever
Now that researchers know this shark is there, they have a slightly better idea as to where to place their cameras.
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bauhaus1000/Getty Images Archaeologists Found Proof of 2,200-Year-Old War Elephants in Spain
If real, it would finally give us the first tangible relic of the elephants that helped reshape Mediterranean history.
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Tuul & Bruno Morandi/Getty Images How Bird Poop Helped Make Ancient Peru a Superpower
Researchers have long suspected that bird droppings may have helped nations like Peru dominate their regions in ancient times.
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Nazarii Neshcherenskyi/Getty Images Did Volcanoes on Mars Erupt During the Last Days of the Dinosaurs?
While Earth was still in its dinosaur era and edging into mammal history, Mars still had volcanic activity in the Tharsis region.
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Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák This Comet Suddenly Started Spinning Backward Near the Sun, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
As Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák barreled toward the sun, it appeared to have stopped entirely… and then it flipped.
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Image credit: Trung Chenh Everything We Know About the Giant Fireball That Just Lit Up the Midwest Sky
If you were in the Midwest late Tuesday night and saw a bright streak tear across the sky, your eyes were working just fine.
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Flavio Coelho/Getty Images How Scientists Hacked People’s Dreams to Help Them Solve Real-Life Puzzles
A new study in Neuroscience of Consciousness tested whether researchers could steer dream content during REM sleep using audio cues.
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Space Frontier/Stringer/Getty Images Did NASA Find Life on Mars 50 Years Ago and Accidentally Kill It?
Back in 1976, NASA’s Viking Landers looked for life on Mars and came up empty. Today, a group of scientists thinks we accidentally killed it.
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CSA Archive/Getty Images Scientists Gave People ‘Smart Underwear’ and Found We Fart Way More Than We Admit
Fourteen farts a day always sounded suspiciously polite.
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Anand Purohit/Getty Images Something ‘Impossible’ Slammed Into Earth in 2023, and Scientists Have a Wild New Theory About It
The truth will depend on whether future detectors catch more neutrinos like this one.
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Avalon/Contributor/Getty Images Why Scientists Just Shot Lasers at Charles Darwin’s Priceless Specimens
Museums around the world hold more than 100 million fluid-preserved specimens, many of which are too fragile or dangerous to open.
