319 results for "dinosaurs"

A new Hubble finding confirms a nagging discrepancy showing the universe to be expanding faster now than was expected from its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang. Researchers suggest...

Posted on Feb 4, 2018 in Nuclear Status-6 looks like a giant torpedo about a third the length of a big Russian submarine. According to a slide in a report...

Posted on Feb 6, 2018 in Alien Life, Extraterrestrial Life For the last 2.5 billion years, surface life on Earth has thrived largely due to the evolution of photosynthesis. Surface...

Posted on Feb 9, 2018 in Space Sometime in the 20th century a theory arose, claiming that the famous inventor Nikola Tesla was actually contacted by a 13,000 year old...

Posted on Feb 9, 2018 in Climate Change Winter is shrinking in places like Hayward, Wis., reports the New York Times, a town of 2,300 that swells to more than...

Posted on Feb 28, 2018 in Astrobiology, NASA, Space “The load of bacteria on the Tesla could be considered a biothreat, or a backup copy of life on Earth,” she...

Posted on Feb 6, 2018 in Astronomy, Evolution, Science, Space Stephen Hawking predicts that the world’s mounting population will consume enough energy to render the world a “ball of fire”...

Posted on Feb 12, 2018 in Artificial Intelligence Top individuals from around the world convened this week at the World Government Summit organized by the AI Initiative from the Future...

Posted on Feb 6, 2018 Viruses are the most abundant and one of the least understood biological entities on Earth. In their invisible, parallel world on Earth they kill half...

Posted on Feb 26, 2018 The halo stars of our galaxy seem not to be randomly distributed in the halo – instead many are grouped together in giant structures –...

Posted on Nov 1, 2017   The Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs likely released far more climate-altering sulfur gas into the atmosphere than originally thought, according to...

Posted on Oct 11, 2017   Mass extinctions were followed by periods of low diversity in which certain new species dominated wide regions of the supercontinent Pangaea, reports a new...

Posted on Feb 1, 2017 in Uncategorized The Earth’s continuously changing magnetic field surrounds the planet like an invisible force field – deflecting highly charged solar particles. Reversals are the...

Posted on May 15, 2016 A team of Harvard physicists investigating whether the newly proposed form of dark matter may play a role in one of the largest mysteries in...

Posted on Jan 27, 2016 in Uncategorized Two researchers  have concluded that the idea that life has or could arise in an Earth-like environment has only a small amount of...

It was the greatest extinction event of all time (at least by Earth standards): Since the first organisms appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, life on the planet...

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that can approach the Earth's orbital distance to within about 28 million miles (45 million kilometers). They range in size from as small...

Stephen Hawking believes that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with...

"In one sense we know much less about Earth than we do about Mars. The vast majority of life forms on our planet are still undiscovered, and their significance for...