Sci-Tech
Cretaceous bird with a weirdly T. Rex-like skull discovered in China
It is now widely accepted that birds are descended from dinosaurs . It is also understood that this transition encompasses some of the most dramat…
Sci-Tech
Why American Beavers Build Dams and How that Helps Ecosystems ?
Beavers are renowned for building dams, which the animals construct from trees and branches they cut using their strong front teeth, according to t…
Culture
How the Mountain’s giant Confederate memorial in Georgia really got there
The Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain in Georgia seems elemental. The vast bas-relief sculpture of Jefferson Davis, Robert. E. Lee and Stonewall…
Culture
Fathers are consistently older than mothers throughout 250,000 years of human evolutionary history
Scientists have discovered a new way to identify the average ages when men and women reproduced throughout human evolutionary history. By studying …
Culture
Researchers detected a massive 650-square-mile Maya site hidden beneath Guatemalan rainforest
Geologists in northern Guatemala have discovered a massive Maya site that stretches approximately 650 square miles (1,700 square kilometers) and da…
Culture
Ancient Maya utilized market-based economics to buy and sell goods , Archaeologist Says
According to a paper by Washington State University anthropologist Rachel Horowitz, the ruling Maya elite in the K’iche’ region of what is now Guat…
Sci-Tech
Modern humans have a youthful brain, and this "Peter Pan syndrome" is only seen in Neanderthals
Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human – but is there more to it? The brain’s shape, as well as the shapes of its compone…
Sci-Tech
28,000-year-old Uniquely Preserved Cave Lion Cub Reveals New Secrets
A nearly 28,000-year-old cave lion cub, discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost, is so well preserved, you can still make out each and every o…
Sci-Tech
Are black holes a natural time machines? Yes, but there’s a catch
Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don’t expect to be heading back to visit the dinosaur…
Culture
Mysterious Symbols Could Represent The Earliest Writing Ever Found
A 21,500-year-old cave painting depicting an aurochs, an extinct cattle species, in the Lascaux caves in France. At least 20,000 years ago, humans …
Sci-Tech
What it would take to find life on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
The mystery of whether microbial alien life might inhabit Enceladus, one of Saturn's 83 moons, could be solved by an orbiting space probe, accord…
Sci-Tech
Supermassive black hole dragged through space by an invisible partner
A supermassive black hole is racing across the universe at 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h), and the astronomers who spotted it don't know why. The f…
Culture
The history and mystery of Tangram, the puzzle game that harbours a mathematical paradox
Have you played the puzzle game Tangram? I remember, as a child, being fascinated by how just seven simple wooden triangles and other shapes could of…
Economy
Economists forecast what’s ahead in 2023
With the current U.S. inflation rate at 7.1% , interest rates rising and housing costs up, many Americans are wondering if a recession is looming. …
