A giant float of floating rocks, ejected from an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean, drifted thousands of miles across the waves. Eventually it made it all the way to Australia, and then embarked on a new project: revitalizing the world’s largest (and highly endangered) coral reef system. This unlikely …
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On the last day of the Cretaceous period, a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and changed the arc of life on Earth. Sixty-six million years later, scientists have used supercomputers to recreate the devastation of that infamous impact in unprecedented detail. The models are helping to …
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The murder of Julius Caesar in 44 a. C. caused a power struggle of almost two decades that led to the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. Historical records say the period was marked by strange sightings in the sky, unusually cold weather, and …
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