Some Insects Have More Than 200,000 Brain Cells
Insect brains possess immense processing power Fruit flies and mosquitoes have about 200,000 neurons that work together to help them navigate, find food [...]
Brain Implants Turn Imagined Handwriting into Text on a Screen
Paralyzed man writes on screen with his mind (Pixabay) A man paralyzed from his neck down was able to imagine writing words and [...]
Scientists Find Liquid Water Inside a Meteorite
Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite, collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Dr. Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday [...]
Farewell, Bennu! NASA spacecraft leaves asteroid to bring pieces of space rock to Earth
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the asteroid Bennu on April 29, 2020. The probe began the long journey back toward Earth [...]
Mangrove forests on the Yucatan Peninsula store record amounts of carbon
Mangrove trees surround Cristalino Cenote (pictured), a water-filled sinkhole on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Soils beneath mangrove-ringed cenotes have some of the highest carbon [...]
‘Mars isn’t dead.’ There could be active volcanoes
Recent explosive volcanic deposit around a fissure of the Cerberus Fossae system. Research: Volcanic eruptions on Mars may be recent (Pixabay) Volcanoes may [...]
‘Mummified’ Plants Give Glimpse of Earth’s Future
Plants may adapt to rising CO2 levels Plant fossils dating back 23 million years are offering clues about how modern plants might react [...]
Scientists Found a 200,000-Year-Old Human Bed
Ancient grass-ash bedding made by humans discovered A bed made by humans from grass and ash dating back 200,000 years has been discovered [...]
Warming Climate Probably Doomed Woolly Rhinos
Warmer climate likely killed off woolly rhinos Warming weather rather than human hunting was probably responsible for the extinction of woolly rhinos about [...]
Myriad Exoplanets in Our Galaxy Could Be Made of Diamond And Rock
Many Milky Way planets may be composed of diamond There may be a number of exoplanets in our galaxy that could have been [...]