Watery Worlds Could Be Common Throughout the Galaxy – Suggesting Life Could Be More Likely Than We Know
Scientists expect to find much more about the strange worlds in the coming years.
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Chemicals Found in Tiny Rocks From Australia Likely Remains of Some of Earth’s First Life Forms, Study Finds
Chemicals found in 3.4 billion-year-old rocks have confirmed them as contenders for the title of oldest evidence of life on Earth.
Potent Psychedelic Drug DMT Makes the Brain Think It is Dying, Study Finds
The psychedelic drug DMT produces an effect in the brain similar to a near-death experience, according to a new study.
Scientists Discover 12 Moons Around Jupiter – Including One ‘Oddball’ That Could Destroy The Others
Scientists have found 12 new moons orbiting around Jupiter, in a breakthrough discovery about our mysterious neighbor.
Georges Lemaître: The Cosmic Mystery That Remains at the Heart of Our Universe After the Big Bang
The more we learn about the expanding universe, the stranger it becomes.
Georges Lemaître: Who was the Belgian priest who discovered the universe is expanding?
‘This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I ever listened.’
Scientists Claim To Have Discovered The World’s Oldest Color – and It Is Pink
The coral hue is older than animals – and helps explain why it has taken so long for them to arrive.
Soundwaves and Viruses Used to ‘Switch Off’ Memory Formation
Researchers have discovered it is possible to use soundwaves and viruses to ‘switch off’ memory formation in the brain.
Milky Way Clogged With Trillions Of Tons Of ‘Dirty, Toxic Space Grease,’ Study Finds
The Milky Way is full of grease-like molecules, enough ‘space grease’ for 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter, according to a new study that attempted to mimic interstellar dust in a laboratory.
Huge part of Arctic ocean is shifting to an Atlantic climate, study finds
The northern Barents Sea has warmed 1.5 degrees Celsius in just 18 years.
New species of extinct ape discovered in tomb of ancient Chinese noblewoman
Gibbon likely belonged to Lady Xia, grandmother of China’s first emperor, but its species appears to have been driven to extinction by deforestation.
Eels are getting high on cocaine in Britain's drug-polluted rivers, say researchers
Cocaine flushed into rivers is making critically endangered eels “hyperactive” and threatening their survival, new research suggests.
Mars Opposition: Red Planet Closer to Earth Than It Has Been in Years
Earth and Mars will be closer together in distance than they have for 15 years, making the Red Planet easily visible with the naked eye.
Video Game Addiction Officially Classified As A Mental Health Disorder By World Health Organization
Compulsively playing video games has now been classified as a mental health disorder by the The World Health Organization.
New Type Of Photosynthesis Discovered That Could Change Hunt For Alien Life
The discovery changes our understanding of the basic mechanism of photosynthesis and should rewrite the textbooks.