A recent discovery of a 380-million-year-old heart left researchers in awe, but it is quite the deal when it comes to evolutionary history. The 380-million-year-old heart, the oldest ever found, coupled with a separate fossilized liver, stomach, and intestine (can ...
NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge is awarding $1 million to public members who can show inventive solutions to the challenge of feeding astronauts on long-term missions. The Issue Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) generally consume canned or dry ...
In its early stages, a temperature check of the universe, just 880 million years after the Big Bang, was made possible by studying the shadow produced by a cloud of cold water gas 13.8 billion light-years distant from Earth. It’s ...
Recent research finds that flowers found wholly preserved in globs of amber grew at the foot of dinosaurs, implying that certain blooming plants in South Africa today have stayed unmodified for 99 million years. The two blooms flowered initially in ...