The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs left almost nothing of itself behind — it vaporized on impact. But a new study says scientists have finally pinned down what kind of object it was, and the answer complicates a decades-old assumption about how it killed. Tracing an Object That No Longer Exists The Chicxulub impactor struck what is now Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula … [Read more...] about New research says rare meteorite struck Mexico and dust, not sulfur, drove dinosaur die-off
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A Rock in a California Creek Turned Out to Be an Ice Age Mastodon’s Tooth
Brigid Lynch was surveying a creek for frog habitat when a lumpy, oddly textured object caught her eye. A few photos and a reverse image search later, it was identified as one of the best-preserved mastodon molars the Bay Area has produced. A Frog Survey Turns Up a Mastodon Lynch, a geomorphologist with Balance Hydrologics, was working in a Midpeninsula Regional Open … [Read more...] about A Rock in a California Creek Turned Out to Be an Ice Age Mastodon’s Tooth
Scientists think humans could live on the moon. One obstacle stands in the way
Water, not power, turns out to be the resource that could keep humans off the moon for good — or at least keep them from building anything bigger than a small town. The Study Behind the Claim A paper published 14 September 2026 in Frontiers in Space Technologies, titled "No Cities on the Moon: A Billion Tons of Water Is Not Enough for Sustainability," was written by … [Read more...] about Scientists think humans could live on the moon. One obstacle stands in the way
The Mathematician Who “Predicted” the End of the World — and Why the Date Is Right Around the Corner
Every so often, an old scientific paper resurfaces online and takes on a life nobody intended for it. That's exactly what's happening with a decades-old calculation from a little-known Austrian-American physicist — one that pins a very specific date on the collapse of human civilization. And that date, according to the original math, falls in just a few weeks. A Serious … [Read more...] about The Mathematician Who “Predicted” the End of the World — and Why the Date Is Right Around the Corner
Scientists Revived a 32,000-Year-Old Plant From Siberian Permafrost
Scientists have grown a flowering plant from fruit tissue that spent roughly 32,000 years frozen in Siberia, a record for the oldest plant ever brought back to life. The story starts with an unlikely helper: an Ice Age ground squirrel that stored seeds for the winter. Here is what the researchers did, and what the result does and doesn't mean. A Squirrel's Pantry Frozen in … [Read more...] about Scientists Revived a 32,000-Year-Old Plant From Siberian Permafrost