A headbutt is not only a transfer for Pokemon or legendary soccer gamers: It’s a clue to the previous lifetime of giraffes. A brand new research revealed Thursday within the journal Science particulars an expedition in Northern China the place paleontologists uncovered fossils of short-necked giraffes (or girrafoids, the prehistoric […]

Small patches of tropical reefs that endure regardless of punishing marine warmth waves might maintain clues to defending the world’s corals, a brand new evaluation suggests. Scientists took aerial surveys of Hawaiian reefs earlier than and after a serious warmth wave in 2019, and located that corals at sure websites […]

A US supercomputer has formally taken the highest spot on the earth, in response to a current record by TOP500, a undertaking that tracks and ranks 500 of probably the most highly effective machines on the earth. Coming in at primary is a Tennessee-based system referred to as Frontier, run […]

The annals of science journalism weren’t all the time as inclusive as they might have been. So PopSci is working to appropriate the report with In Hindsight, a sequence profiling among the figures whose contributions we missed. Learn their tales and discover the remainder of our one hundred and fiftieth anniversary protection right here.  […]

Geoscientists say Earth can be residence to 1 large supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are 4 outstanding variations of this mega-continent. The local weather is likely to be surprisingly balmy in one of the vital well-liked variations, however there’s additionally the potential for an ice age. Within […]

Recollections form who we’re—and who we’ll change into. Our previous helps us determine what to do in more and more demanding or complicated conditions, and the extra expertise we’ve got the higher geared up we’re to make the subsequent transfer.  However individuals and different residing issues aren’t the one issues […]

VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYGetty Photos Avi Loeb, astronomy’s resident unhealthy boy, suggests the universe might have been created in a laboratory. Our supposed creators, Loeb writes in an op-ed printed in Scientific American final 12 months, might have developed the know-how wanted to assemble “child universes” able to producing […]

The annals of science journalism weren’t at all times as inclusive as they might have been. So PopSci is working to appropriate the file with In Hindsight, a collection profiling among the figures whose contributions we missed. Learn their tales and discover the remainder of our a hundred and fiftieth anniversary protection right here.  […]

When a neuron loses its connection to neighboring cells, that’s usually an irreversible destiny. However in new analysis, scientists have discovered a method to revive the connections of light-sensing neurons in human retinas obtained from postmortem organ donor eyes.  As much as 5 hours after an individual dies, eyes nonetheless […]