The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct
Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s last woolly mammoth…
In ‘Warming Up,’ the sports world’s newest opponent is climate change
Warming UpMadeleine OrrBloomsbury Sigma, $28 It’s easy to think of sports as an escape from reality, removed from the glaring…
We may finally know the source of mysterious high-energy neutrinos
Supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies may be churning out a lot of the universe’s high-energy neutrinos.…
Honeybees can “smell” lung cancer
Float like a butterfly, sniff out cancer like a bee? Honeybees can detect the subtle scents of lung cancer in…
Something weird is happening to Earth’s inner core
Something strange is happening at Earth’s center. Decades of earthquake data show that Earth’s inner core has been rotating slower…
A lost civilization’s partial alphabet was discovered in a social media post
A sequence of letters belonging to an ancient alphabet has been discovered in a most unusual way — by someone…
A black hole made from pure light is impossible, thanks to quantum physics
Black holes can’t be formed from pure light. Quantum physics would curb their creation under any foreseeable conditions, a new…
A new study challenges the idea that Rapa Nui islanders caused an ‘ecocide’
Early settlers of the island of Rapa Nui are famous for having created massive stone statues. They have also gotten…
Beneficial bacteria help these marine worms survive extreme cold
Antarctic marine worms survive with a little help from their bacterial friends. Close relatives of earthworms, polychaetes are some of…
A heat dome is baking the United States. Here’s why that’s so dangerous
June is the new July. Or maybe even August. At least it feels that way, as summer heat has already…
