Can a volcano cause the end of humanity? What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted now? What if Yellowstone suddenly went from bubbling geysers and spectacular landscapes to the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in human history? Yellowstone National Park in the United States of America may be famous for its … Read more
Senckenberg-Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research, Senckenberganlage, Frankfurt, GermanyAriadna E. Morales, Evgeny V. Leushkin, Alexander Ben Hamadou, Alejandro Gonzales-Irribarren, Carola Greve, Leon Hilgers, Dimitrios-Georgios Kontopoulos, Shenglin Liu, Yury V. Malovichko, Tilman Schell & Michael HillerUniversity of Montpellier–CNRS–IRD, ISEM, Montpellier, FranceAriadna E. Morales & Sebastien J. PuechmailleTree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UKYan Liang (梁妍), Eugene W. Myers, Mark Blaxter, Paul Davis, Matthieu Muffato, Guoying Qi & Emma C. TeelingDepartment of Ecology … Read more
MPRA designLibrary designTo generate the catalogue of fixed human-derived substitutions we used genotyping data from 139 non-human great apes15,68,69,70,71 (10 bonobos, 59 chimpanzees, 43 gorillas and 27 orangutans), all mapped to the human reference genome GRCh37. To restrict the analysis to high-confidence genotypes, we excluded variants that did not meet any of the following criteria: … Read more
For the first time, astronomers have detected radio signals from a planet beyond our solar system, according to a study available on the arXiv preprint server. The historic observation offers a new way to study distant worlds and understand how they interact with their host stars and the environments around them. Radio signals can convey … Read more
Kent Hups set out one morning on a research expedition into the famous Hell Creek Formation, a series of fossil-rich sedimentary rock layers in the western United States. The vast formation, spanning parts of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota, is abundant with dinosaur bones from the Late Cretaceous, but finding footprints is a … Read more
For practical purposes, we say that one day (the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once on its axis) is equivalent to 24 hours. In reality, different factors on different time scales influence how fast our planet spins, something scientists haven’t fully understood yet. But new findings, published today in Nature, may finally … Read more
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NASA is a winner of the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair for the stellar performance of the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis 2 mission, the first to send humans back to the Moon since the Apollo era. The question: Can Orion’s life support systems keep astronauts alive for 10 days without a safety net, and can … Read more
A good rule of thumb is that anything that can interact with electromagnetic (EM) radiation is an antenna, which includes our bodies, which contain mostly salt water, as well as raindrops and moisture in the air. This can be both a benefit and a curse, depending on whether you are trying to transmit a signal … Read more
A quick spray of Windex is not necessary to get a clear view of this situation. There is a growing need for windows for space travelers, whether they are making suborbital jumps, staying in Earth’s orbit, or taking distant trips to the Moon and beyond. Flash back decades ago, when the first Mercury space capsule … Read more