Science9:00 AM13h1Science9:00 AMScienceAstronomers Have Spotted a Weirdo 'Jupiter' With a Four-Day YearIsaac Schultz11Nearly 600 light-years from Earth, the exoplanet known as WASP-62b whips around its host star at a breakneck pace.…
Science1/22/21Jan 22SaveScience1/22/21ScienceAmmonia May Lurk in the Ice of Saturn’s Moons, a Clue to Possible OceansIsaac Schultz2Thirteen years ago, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was orbiting Saturn, not yet through its first mission, when a…
Science1/21/21Jan 211Science1/21/21ScienceResearchers Say They've Found the Ancient Dens of Giant Carnivorous WormsIsaac Schultz61Twenty million years ago, the shores of northern Taiwan were sandstone sediments at the bottom of the sea, where…
Science1/20/21Jan 202Science1/20/21ScienceWhat Does Mars Sound Like? The Perseverance Rover Is Going to Find OutIsaac Schultz8Nothing on the hills seems to be alive, so the rocky terrain of Mars will be filled with the sounds of solitude when…
Science1/19/21Jan 192Science1/19/21ScienceAt Long Last, Paleontologists Scrutinize a Dinosaur CloacaIsaac Schultz36Despite the huge number of dinosaur fossils found, from bones to feathers, precious little exists in the fossil…
Science1/18/21Jan 183Science1/18/21ScienceA Prime Suspect for Dark Matter Might Be Escaping From Neutron StarsIsaac Schultz12After axions were first theorized by physicists in the suburbs of Chicago 45 years ago, they quickly became a robust…
Science1/14/21Jan 143Science1/14/21ScienceThis Black Hole Is Really Taking Its Time Eating a Poor StarIsaac Schultz12On November 14, 2014, a telescope spotted a burst of light in a galaxy 570 million light-years away. It was thought…
Science1/13/21Jan 134Science1/13/21ScienceAstronomers Detected Gravitational Waves. Now They Want to See the Cosmic OceanIsaac Schultz7Using a signal from dozens of rapidly spinning, dead stars, astrophysicists have gotten closer to realizing their…
Science1/12/21Jan 122Science1/12/21ScienceTasmanian Tigers and Wolves Evolved Uncannily Similar SkullsIsaac Schultz12The extinct thylacine had the stripes of a tiger, the body of a canid, and the pouch of a kangaroo. These ill-fated,…
Science1/10/21Jan 102Science1/10/21ScienceNewborn Megalodons Were Larger Than Adult Humans and Probably Ate Their SiblingsIsaac Schultz9Picture this: It’s about 20 million years ago, and you’re inside the giant womb of an extremely pregnant Otodus…
Science1/9/21Jan 92Science1/9/21ScienceMeteorites From the Beginning of the Solar System May Have Carried Water Quite RecentlyIsaac Schultz11Meteorites that formed in the earliest days of the solar system may contain liquid water, according to new research,…
Animals1/7/21Jan 7SaveAnimals1/7/21AnimalsResearchers Take Another Look at Platypus DNA, and Yup, Still WeirdIsaac Schultz7Waddling, wriggling, ambling, digging, laying eggs. There’s no shortage of verbiage when it comes to describing…
Space1/7/21Jan 74Space1/7/21SpacePhysicists Are Looking for Dark Matter in Tiny, Ancient Black HolesIsaac Schultz20On the night of November 23, 2014, a powerful telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii was trying to pick out the enigmatic…
Space1/6/21Jan 61Space1/6/21SpaceAstronomers Calculate Universe’s Age With Atacama Desert TelescopeIsaac Schultz22High up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, miles away from the dull glow of light pollution, the secluded Atacama Cosmology…
Archaeology1/4/21Jan 42Archaeology1/4/21ArchaeologyIron Age Settlement With Large Roundhouses and Roman Trinkets Found in the UKIsaac Schultz17Over the course of 2020, a patchwork of circles were dug out from below the topsoil of Tye Green, Cressing in…
Robots12/31/20Dec 312Robots12/31/20RobotsMeet the Pint-Sized Robots That Spontaneously DanceIsaac Schultz6In January 2020, a second-floor lab at Northwestern University was filled with the mild-mannered clacking of three…
Archaeology12/29/20Dec 292Archaeology12/29/20Archaeology2,000-Year-Old Food Just Came Out of a Pompeii Snack BarIsaac Schultz37Before its demise at the explosive hands of Mt. Vesuvius, Pompeii was a bustling town with a strong agricultural…
Space12/28/20Dec 281Space12/28/20SpaceA Huge Jet of Radiation From the Early Universe Has Been SpottedIsaac Schultz26When the universe was a fledgling billion years old, a galaxy spewed a ginormous, fast-moving jet of radiation and…
Archaeology12/23/20Dec 231Archaeology12/23/20ArchaeologyArchaeologists Find Evidence That a Massive Tsunami Hit Ancient Levantine CoastIsaac Schultz4When Gilad Shtienberg began digging on an Israeli beach in August 2018, the last thing he expected to find were…
Space12/23/20Dec 231Space12/23/20SpaceScientists Find a Meteorite That Could Reshape Our Understanding of AsteroidsIsaac Schultz2Scientists have released an analysis of a meteorite fragment gathered after a 2008 asteroid near-collision with…