In 2019, Breakthrough Listen picked up strange radio waves from Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun. The signal, names BLC-1, looks like a technosignature that scientists are on the look out for. These signals are in a very…
The trachea, or windpipe, is a tube that brings air to and from the lungs. It is a hard organ to transplant because there are many tiny blood vessels. New research helped doctors at The Mount Sinai Hospital do a…
The Map of Life, or MOL, tracks the biodiversity around the world. Researchers are using the map to predict where an unknown species may be hiding. The data model shows that amphibians and reptiles are the most undiscovered animals. This…
People have long assumed that the moon is geologically dead. After all, our natural satellite lacks the internal heat needed for tectonic activity. Right? But new analysis of data recorded by seismometers during the Apollo era is shedding light on…
In May 2019, American explorer Victor Vescovo and his team completed the deepest-ever ocean dive—35,849 feet below the surface. Descending in a submersible to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, Vescovo identified new species of shrimp-like creatures called…
In 2012, a graduate student working in South Africa found the bones of an unknown dinosaur. Some of the bones were sticking out of a field. A team of researchers went to work. After years of excavation, they had uncovered…
Most ancient human DNA is gathered from bones or teeth. Since the human fossil record is very limited, scientists have been exploring new sources for DNA. They found successful human DNA samples from dust on a cave floor. The samples…