A familiar rivalry surfaced online this week, sparked by an image that seemed deliberately out of place. Jeff Bezos posted a picture of a large tortoise on social media, without explanation. The timing was notable. Elon Musk had been dominating headlines with fresh ideas tied to space, including orbiting data centres and long-term visions for…
Lake Erie, one of North America’s largest lakes, has surprised everyone this week. A massive crack formed in the ice, stretching so far that it can reportedly be seen from space. People on the north shore in Canada could reportedly spot it all the way down to Cleveland, Ohio. The crack grew over Saturday, pushed…
Beneath the ocean’s rolling surface, there are mountains. Not the snowy peaks you hike, but vast, underwater volcanoes rising from the seafloor. Some tower more than a kilometre high. Some even poke above the water as tiny islands. Scientists say there might be over 100,000 of these “seamounts” scattered across the globe, but fewer than…
Stuck on a puzzle? Sleeping may help you solve it, study finds Humans have long believed that dreams could be a source of creativity and a means to solving problems. It is often said that many famous ideas were inspired by dreams. Nevertheless, scientists have found it difficult to demonstrate this in a clear way….
New study suggests the T-Rex dinosaur grew in a very different way than previously thought New research using fossil bone analysis is overturning traditional scientific views on the growth and lifespan of Tyrannosaurus rex. Analysis of growth marks left inside leg bones at a cellular level has led researchers to determine the age and growth…
Charles Darwin (Image source: Wikipedia) Charles Darwin was an English naturalist and biologist whose work changed the way people thought about life on Earth. He wrote On the Origin of Species in 1859. This book introduced the idea of evolution through natural selection. This idea explained how species change over time by allowing individuals who…
Elon Musk claims, “SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon” Elon Musk said that his company SpaceX plans to build a system that would allow anyone to travel to the Moon and, eventually, Mars.“SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to the Moon. This will be so…
The Curiosity rover, along the lower slopes of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater, has reportedly uncovered the largest organic molecules ever found on the Red Planet. Decane, undecane, and dodecane are the mid-sized hydrocarbons that look a lot like fragments of fatty acids preserved in mudstone that’s 3.7 billion years old. Scientists reveal these molecules…
NASA finds Earth’s magnetic field may be the hidden reason oxygen has lasted for millions of years Scientists have debated for decades whether Earth’s magnetic field plays a role in keeping the planet habitable. The question matters because Earth stands apart from other rocky worlds. It has a long-lived magnetic field generated deep inside the…
Humanity has been reaching for the stars for decades. Moon landings, Mars rovers, and long stays on the ISS. But there’s one question that seems to hang in the air: can humans actually have children in space? It sounds simple. But it isn’t. Space is not just empty air with combination of radiation, microgravity, stress,…
