The discovery of Zhongyuansaurus junchangi, an new species of ankylosaurid from the Henan Province of China, adds a new dimension to the history of armored dinosaurs. It was an herbivore, as well as heavily armored, and lived during the Early Cretaceous period roughly 113-100 million years ago. Its evolutionary peculiarities included a bizzare ‘swallowtail’ tail ...
Elisa Morgera, a United Nations expert on human rights and climate change, has taken a bold stance against the fossil fuel industry’s misinformation tactics, proposing something radical: their political and economic power needs to be legally and structurally dismantled. As with other fossil fuel defenders of our planet, Morgera focuses on telling them the truth ...
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the ultimate goal of AI. It is a machine that can think, learn, and adapt like a person in any field. Even though billions of dollars have been spent on it and there is constant hype, no one can agree on what AGI really is. Microsoft and OpenAI used to ...
This summer, something strange is happening to our planet. It is spinning faster than normal, which means that some days are shorter by precious milliseconds. The Moon and Earth will be pulling on each other more strongly on July 9, July 22, and August 5, 2025. This will speed up the rotation of the Earth, ...
People thought that leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, came to the Americas with European colonizers hundreds of years ago. But a new study that is changing the way we think about this has come out. Researchers looking at 4,000-year-old skeletons from Chile have found genetic proof of Mycobacterium lepromatosis, a rare and severe form ...
Mario Rana, an amateur astronomer and NASA contributor, pointed his telescope at Saturn on the morning of July 5, 2025. He may have seen history being made. Astronomers around the world are trying to figure out if this was the first time anyone has ever seen an impact on Saturn. There was a brief but ...
New research confirms that the huge amounts of water stored behind dams have not only changed sea levels but also the planet’s axis of rotation. This shocking discovery shows how much humans have affected the Earth’s geophysical processes. A study in Geophysical Research Letters says that building dams over the past 200 years has caused ...
A treasure trove of 380-million-year-old fossils in the sun-baked rocks of Western Australia’s Gogo Formation is changing the story of how the first land animals hunted and ate. A new study published in iScience gives us shocking new information about the diets of ancient lungfish, which are the ancestors of fish and four-legged vertebrates like ...
Geologists have been studying rocks, fossils, and ice cores for hundreds of years to learn about Earth’s past climate. A new study has reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes with an accuracy that has never been seen before. This study shows patterns that could change how we think about climate change. This research, ...
In a cosmic battle 3.8 billion light-years away, two galaxy clusters crashed into each other with such force that they tore apart the fabric of spacetime. This left behind a lot of clues about dark matter. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has now given us the clearest picture yet of the Bullet Cluster, a ...
Alana Theron, BSc in Biodiversity and Ecology
Maria Faith Saligumba
