Science Origin-of-Life Study Points to Chemical Chimeras, Not RNAQuanta Magazine - Jordana Cepelewicz Origin-of-life researchers have usually studied the potential of pure starting materials, but messy chemical composites may kick-start life more …
Exoplanets Not Only Didn't We Find Water On An Earth-Like Exoplanet, But We Can't With Current TechnologyForbes - Ethan SiegelThis artist’s impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is the first super-Earth exoplanet discovered where water is present and with temperatures
Universe The universe may be billions of years younger than we thoughtNBC News - By The Associated PressNew calculations point to an age of 11.4 billion years rather than the generally accepted number of 13.7 billion years. New calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than
Comets Comets could all come from the same placePopular Science - Charlie WoodData from distant solar systems is helping researchers reconstruct the birth of our own. From the ascending soul of Julius Cesar to the onset of the black death, humans have found no shortage of meaning
History The finding of the oldest human skull changes evolution scienceQuartz - Hester HanegraefThe recent discovery of a 3.8m-year-old cranium (skull without the lower jaw) is the hottest topic of conversation among palaeoanthropologists right now. But fossils are found all the time, so why is cranium
Exoplanets Water vapor — and maybe even rain — found on distant world twice the size of EarthThe Verge - Loren GrushWater vapor has been found in the atmosphere of a distant planet that’s just over twice the size of Earth. It’s the smallest world yet found with water in its surrounding atmosphere, and it’s possible
Hubble Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planetNational Geographic - Michael GreshkoA super-Earth about 111 light-years away is “the best candidate for habitability that we know right now,” astronomers say. In a first for astronomers studying worlds beyond our solar system, data from
Asia The formation of human populations in South and Central Asiasciencemag.org To elucidate the extent to which the major cultural transformations of farming, pastoralism, and shifts in the distribution of languages in Eurasia …
Protons Physicists Finally Nail the Proton’s Size, and Hope DiesQuanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover A new measurement appears to have eliminated an anomaly that had captivated physicists for nearly a decade. In 2010, physicists in Germany reported …
The Brain A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been DebunkedThe Atlantic - Bahar GholipourFor decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake. The death of free will began with thousands of finger taps. In 1964,
Albert Einstein Time and Space: The Strange Reality of Realityuniversetoday.com - Joshua Carroll “Are the dilation calculations correct” the jump coordinator asks you as he approaches your desk. You look over some papers in front of you that …
Neanderthals Neanderthal footprint discovery sheds new light on social groupsdailymail.co.uk - By Ian Randall For Mailonline Hundreds of Neanderthal footprints dating back to around 80,000 years ago have been unearthed from a coastal creek in Normandy. The footprints were …
Science How many planets can support life like Earth?Popular Science - Sara ChodoshZooming in on our odds of finding a hospitable planet. Astronomers’ cups have runneth over with alien worlds since NASA launched its (now retired) exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope in 2009.
Science Last day of the dinosaurs' reign captured in stunning detailNational Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasRocks from deep inside the Chicxulub impact crater show what happened in the minutes to hours after one of our planet’s most catastrophic events. Inch by inch, the team pulled up the skinny core of ghostly
Albert Einstein 'Einstein's Biggest Blunder' May Have Finally Been Fixedspace.com - Tim Childers A single number, called the cosmological constant, bridges the microscopic world of quantum mechanics and the macroscopic world of Einstein's theory …
Science Strange life-forms found deep in a mine point to vast 'underground Galapagos'Euronews - By Corey S. Powell with NBC News Tech and Science NewsSomething odd is stirring in the depths of Canada's Kidd Mine. The zinc and copper mine, 350 miles northwest of Toronto, is the deepest spot ever explored on land and the reservoir of the oldest known
Obituaries Steven Gubser, a Bright Star in the Physics Universe, Dies at 47The New York Times - Dylan Loeb McClainThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this obituary misstated the length of Professor Gubser's fatal fall while rock climbing in the Alps. It was more
Exoplanets The Quantum of Life?scientificamerican.com - Nathalie A. Cabrol A number of recent scientific papers, some of which are listed in the “references” section below, have addressed the concept of a living universe. …
Fossils Incredible Fossils Link Ancient Creature to Earliest ‘Footprints’ on EarthGizmodo - George Dvorsky Aquatic, worm-like animals capable of crawling through mud appeared at least 550 million years ago, according to new fossil evidence. The discovery …
Bacteria The argument for sexual selection in bacteriaphys.org - Cell Press The evolutionary pressure to pass on DNA can produce behavior that otherwise makes no sense in a struggle to survive. Rams bash heads in fights over …
Charles Darwin Evolution doesn't work the way you think it doesPopular Science - By Quentin Wheeler, Antonio G. Valdecasas & Cristina Cánovas/The ConversationIt doesn't proceed in a straight line—so why do we keep drawing it that way? Evolution doesn’t follow a preordained, straight path. Yet images abound that suggest otherwise. From museum displays to editorial
Psychology How Humans Became Peacefulpsychologytoday.com - Nathan H. Lents, Ph.D. Scanning the headlines each day, we are left with the impression that our world is a cesspool of conflict and violence. The reality, however, is that …
Black Holes Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene on the Origin of Lifepbs.org ISAACSON: If you could solve three scientific problems, tell me what they’d be. GREENE: Very clear what they would be. So I want to know the origin of …
Earth Changes in Earth’s Orbit Likely Kickstarted One of the Hottest Periods in Historydiscovermagazine.com - Nathaniel Scharping Our planet is getting warmer today, that’s a fact. But, this isn’t the hottest time in our planet’s history — far from it, in fact. At various …
Geek New Evidence Bolsters Theory That First Americans Arrived by the Pacific CoastGizmodo - George Dvorsky Archaeological evidence excavated in western Idaho suggests humans were in the region well over 15,000 years ago—prior to the opening of the massive …
Planetary Habitability We're one step closer to tracking down another EarthPopular Science - Charlie WoodThe most robust census yet suggests that they’re out there, but they might take time to locate. Astronomers have found more than 4,000 planets circling distant stars, yet none feel quite like home. Teegarden
Science A 3.8-Million-Year-Old Skull Puts a New Face on a Little-Known Human Ancestorsmithsonianmag.com - Brian Handwerk Spotting the intact Australopithecus skull in the Ethiopian dirt caused paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie to literally jump for joy. “It was …
Population How Did Humans Survive Our Near Extinction?realclearscience.com - Ross Pomeroy Roughly 75,000 years ago, Indonesia exploded. A great supervolcano in Sumatra erupted, spewing an estimated 2,800 cubic kilometers of magma and rock …
Exoplanets Study shows some exoplanets may have greater variety of life than exists on Earth | EurekAlert! Science Newseurekalert.org A new study indicates that some exoplanets may have better conditions for life to thrive than Earth itself has. "This is a surprising conclusion", …
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