Going back millions of years into Earth’s history, our planet’s magnetic field has frequently gone its own way. The magnetic north pole has not only wandered through the north, but it has changed places with the south magnetic pole, taking up residence in the Antarctic. Going back millions of years, there’s a regular pattern of […]

Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Lyakhov, who logged almost a year in Earth orbit living aboard three different space stations, has died at the age of 76. The Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, where Lyakhov prepared for his three space missions in Star City, Russia, confirmed he died on Thursday(April 19), noting only that it was sudden. “A bright […]

SYDNEY – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will receive A$500 million ($379.10 million) in new funding to restore water quality and protect the coral from starfish attacks, government ministers announced on Sunday. Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg said in a televised interview that some of the money would go directly to farmers to modify their practices “to […]

The spider was first observed by Australian biologist Barbara York Main in 1974, shortly after it was born. Australian scientists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest spider, a creature that had most likely outlived the previous record holder by about 15 years. In a study published in the journal Pacific Conservation Biology and cited […]

April 25 (UPI) — As recently as a century ago, the people of New Guinea were carving daggers from the thighbones of cassowaries, flightless, dinosaur-like birds. The most feared and respected warriors, however, wielded daggers carved from the femurs of either their vanquished enemies or their deceased fathers. A new study, published this week in the journal […]

Elon Musk, the man behind the continued success and popularity of the SpaceX, continues to dominate the world of space explorations. As based on the recent report from the SpaceX, the entire purpose of the company is to develop a sustainable and feasible model of transportation on the interplanetary that can transport humans to the […]

NASA has partnered with The Fairchild Challenge — an annual standards-based environmental outreach programme which reaches more than 125,000 students annually — to help determine which edible plants might be suitable for growth in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in the Veggie growth chamber. Not only scientists with advanced degrees but students are also […]

Pluto, the dwarf world in our solar system has recently been removed from the planet status to a dwarf planet, and many experts believe that this space body is too severe to harbor life in deep space. However, a new research conducted by NASA has revealed that Pluto has an enormous underground ocean, and sometimes, […]

Elon Musk’s planned BFR Mars rocket finds a home in Los Angeles. It’s oddly fitting for what could be a very historic spacecraft. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has received a key thumbs-up to build the so-called BFR — for Big Falcon Rocket or Big F****ing Rocket — on an island steeped in history, both dark and inspirational. The LA Board […]

Human dispersal coincided with a reduction in the average body size of mammals. When the first modern humans ventured beyond Africa during the late Pleistocene, roughly 120,000 years ago, they stepped into a world filled with giants: the six-ton giant ground sloth in South America, the two- to three-ton wooly rhino in Europe and northern Asia, […]