This summer, the latest installment of the Jurassic World franchise, titled Rebirth, will showcase familiar patterns from the franchise while introducing towering titanosaurs and mutant dinosaurs as well as the beloved T. rex. However, bringing such creatures to life on screen in a tangible manner is Dr. Steve Brusatte’s work. Paleontologist Brusatte fixes the monsters ...
Jupiter-sized exoplanets which emerge as a proxy for accelerating self-sabotage by instigating tremendous outbursts from their parent stars seem as violations to the conventional structure of planetary systems; astronomers have identified such a diabolic planet, HIP 67522 b. Located within its parent star’s magnetic field, HIP 67522 b’s orbital position subjects it to flare beams ...
A team of scientists has recently sequenced the oldest and most complete genome from the Egypt known as the “Ruler of Nekhen”. The man lived between 4500–4800 years ago which is contemporaneous with the dawn of the Old Kingdom. His groundbreaking findings show he was genotypically linked with North Africa and greatly associated with Mesopotamia, ...
The irrefutable visual proof of a star dying in a spectacular “double detonation,” the explosive death of a star which occurs in twinned strokes, has now been recorded. This event marks the first instance of a white dwarf star undergoing two rapid explosions. The unprecedented finding offers new insights into the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5, ...
For many years, Body Mass Index (BMI) was the primary measurement used to evaluate risk of obesity and associated health conditions. A new study, however, suggests that BMI is a poorly utilized measure of mortality risk, as it overlooks more than half of individuals considered to be at risk, at the same time, incorrectly categorizing ...
The recent find in Germany rewrites the book on Neanderthal sophistication. Archaeologists have found a “fat factory” site where Neanderthals processed bones to extract grease which dated back to about 125,000 years ago. This discovery indicates that the need to extract calories for survival from animal fats was a full 100,000 years more advanced than ...
For 100 years, insulin has been the primary treatment for type 1 diabetes (T1D) and despite being a lifesaver for millions, it is far from perfect. New clinical trials indicate that semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, may be the first significant add-on therapy for T1D since the introduction of insulin in 1921. ...
Last month, workmen building things in Argentina unearthed a skull that looked weird. This made stories about aliens and ancient mysteries spread like wildfire. The bones of a toddler who died at least 700 years ago looked a lot like the long-headed aliens who are sometimes depicted in science fiction. But archaeologists immediately put a ...
The Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan recently erupted in a dramatic display of bubbling earth and man-made fire. It was a show that combined the raw power of nature with the cleverness of people. For almost 11 hours, four vents spewed mud up to 6.6 feet (2 meters) high. People lit the methane gas ...
NASA’s Terra satellite took a stunning picture of the cosmos in May 2015. It showed six Atlantic islands painting the sky with swirling, hypnotic cloud spirals that covered more than 260,000 square miles (670,000 km²). These “von Kármán vortices” are one of the most beautiful atmospheric dances in nature. They got their name from the ...
