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Climate change drove woolly mammoth extinct, not humans
By John Loeffler published
New DNA research proves that woolly mammoth were killed off by climate change, not human activity.
This exoplanet got hit so hard it literally had the wind knocked out of it
By John Loeffler published
Scientists have found evidence that an exoplanet 95 light-years away from us had a large part of its atmosphere stripped by a gigantic collision about 200,000 years ago.
Dog-sized scorpion once roamed the waters off prehistoric China
By John Loeffler published
A new fossil of a prehistoric sea scorpion was found in China, revealing the first record of these dog-sized anthropods in the region.
Scientists achieve the coldest temperature ever recorded
By John Loeffler published
Scientists used a free fall tower and super cold atoms to achieve the coldest temperature ever recorded.
Humans are crappy navigators because the brain is lazy, new research finds
By John Loeffler published
The human brain doesn't try to find the shortest path to its destination, according to new research, just the path that is easiest to calculate.
Astronomers catch a white dwarf turning itself on and off for the first time
By John Loeffler published
A white dwarf was observed turning itself "on and off" for the first time, possibly the result of a rapidly rotating magnetic field.
How 'volcanic' black holes and cosmic bubbles are sculpting intergalactic space
By John Loeffler published
Volcano-like supermassive black holes, cosmic bubbles, and million-light-year long filaments are all key to understanding the shape of intergalactic space and the galaxies within it.
Watch William Shatner launch into space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepherd rocket
By John Loeffler last updated
Blue Origin is scheduled to launch the actor William Shatner into space on October 13, 2021.
Mysterious 'cosmic burpers' are shooting out bizarre radio waves from galaxy's core
By John Loeffler published
Strange radio waves emerging from the galaxy's central region are unlike anything scientists have ever seen.
A Mars secret solved, a colossal comet, and mind fractals all in this week's science news
By John Loeffler published
Roundup This week's science news saw some space mysteries finally solved, as well as some new insights into the human mind, new hidden planets, and the largest comet ever seen.
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