Antarctica Lost An Area Of Ice Twice The Size Of Delaware In The Last 30 Years
Fortunately, most of Antarctica remains stable, but the vulnerable areas are in grave danger.
The Average Person Holds Nine ”Moderately Significant” Secrets, And They’re Roughly What You’d Expect
Worrying about a secret you hold? A new study finds you aren’t the only one, and doing so can have consequences for your well-being.
Humans Have Been Fascinated With Crystals For 800,000 Years – We May Now Know Why
Just like in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the apes went wild for a crystal monolith
Measuring The Mass Of A Potentially Hazardous Asteroid During A High-Speed Flyby, According To Astrophysicists
While such a mission would be nerve-wracking, it would still be pretty darn cool.
“These Kinds Of Systems Are Very Rare”: The Most Compact Known 3+1 Quadruple Star System Has Been Discovered
Extreme, but apparently very stable.
”It Occurred On The Nightside”: NASA’s MAVEN Orbiter Detects Potential Lightning Strike On Mars
Sifting through 180,000 observations, the team found a single event. We may have detected a whistler wave on the Red Planet.
This Is The Face Of ‘Little Foot’, The Oldest Hominin From Southern Africa
Weirdly, it doesn’t look like its relatives from the same region.
Scared Of Spiders? Your Eye Movements Reveal You’d Rather Focus On Other Insects
”We found that when people received a paired image of an arachnid versus another arthropod, they strongly prefer looking at the non-spider arthropods.”
Extreme Microbes Could Planet-Hop Using Asteroids: ”We Were Interested In What The Limits Of Life Are”
New experiments showed how a bacterium could survive being thrown into space by an impact.
”Humanity’s Last Exam” Reveals How Accurate AI Actually Is. Chatbots Might Want To Look Away Now.
Though all models were overconfident and performed poorly, there are some clear front-runners.