At a distance of 5.5 billion light-years from the universe, a series of telescopes have captured a bright flash of short gamma-ray explosions. It reminds us that we are reminded of the Kilonova explosion associated with the neutron star collision, which we discovered on the back of a historic history …
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An ancient tomb in New Austria, which may represent the twins’ oldest burial on record, shows a new study. The 1,000,000-year-old burial is dated to the Upper Paleolithic (period 400,000 to 10,000 years ago), also known as the Old Stone Age. According to the analysis of both children, one of …
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Remains of a huge, ancient lake have been found under Greenland, buried under a sheet of ice in the northwest of the country and estimated to be millions, if not thousands, years old, scientists say. The giant ‘fossil lake bed’ is a phenomenon that scientists have never seen before in …
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We know that Mars was once wetter than it is now, but questions about when water formed and evaporated are more difficult to answer. Now a new study suggests that there was water on the Red Planet about 4.4 billion years ago, much earlier than previously thought. It is based …
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The new flu vaccine grown in plants has been put to the test in two large-scale clinical trials, the first for vaccine research. The vaccine contained virus-like particles resembling strains of the spreading flu, derived from relatives of native Australian tobacco who were genetically instructed to produce viral proteins. Approximately …
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