NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Elephants are widely worshiped by many people today, but a recent study suggests that early humans slaughtered them for survival almost 2 million years ago. A group of international researchers found what they describe as “the earliest direct evidence of proboscidean butchery,” including a newly identified elephant … Read more
Little is known about what was happening shortly after the Big Bang, but researchers now hope to shed new light on the matter by taking advantage of the far side of the Moon. Scientists plan to put a suitcase-sized satellite into orbit around the Moon, using the data it collects as it passes by the … Read more
Moon dust has settled after the body of a 4.5-ton SpaceX rocket crashed into the terrain near Einstein Crater on August 5. That impact site was photographed by South Korea’s lunar-orbiting Danuri spacecraft, as well as NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). A Chinese commercial space debris monitoring satellite also reportedly tracked and recorded the 5,400 … Read more
One of the most disappointing and relatable parts of aging is the experience of a joint that no longer does what it’s supposed to do: knees that hurt when you bend over, shoulders that make noise. The general assumption for decades has been that once cartilage in a joint has broken down, it cannot grow … Read more
I must have been eight or nine the first time an adult told me, with unmistakable pride, that a Georgian song floated somewhere beyond the edge of the solar system. I remember nodding my head the way children do when a fact is clearly assumed to matter to them, without really understanding what it means. … Read more
If we put Earth and Venus side by side, the family resemblance is unusually close. Venus has about 95 percent of Earth’s diameter, 81.5 percent of its mass, and about 90 percent of Earth’s surface gravity. A 75-kilogram person on Earth would press down on the ground with about the same force as a 68-kilogram … Read more
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Adding huge amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will cause Earth’s forests to wither and die rather than flourish, according to a new study that contradicts erroneous claims that fossil fuel pollution will green the planet. An analysis of fossilized leaf cells from a period known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (or PETM), which … Read more
A faint ribbon of stars in a distant galaxy has led astronomers to a discovery that could reveal secrets about one of the biggest mysteries in our universe. Hidden within archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers found the barely visible trail of stars: the first stellar stream from a globular cluster detected outside … Read more