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There’s A Lot More Happening Inside Mars Than We Knew
Scientists have published a treasure trove of new research from the InSight lander’s first year on Mars, showing just how active the Red Planet really is.
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Bird That Looks Like It Died Yesterday Turns Out To Be 46,000 Years Old
On Jacquelyn Gill’s first day doing field work at the Siberian permafrost caves during the summer of 2018, a local fossil hunter approached her with a dead bird in his hands. The translator hadn’t yet arrived, but from the freshly dead look of the bird, Gill assumed it had just recently flown into the cave…
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Study Suggests Early Humans Had Even More Interspecies Sex
Before we became the only remaining humans on the planet, Homo sapiens mated with Neanderthals and the closely related Denisovans. New research is now revealing that the common ancestor of Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with its own predecessor, a population of “superarchaic” hominids.
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Searching For Dark Matter With Quantum Computers, One Blip Of Light At A Time
For decades, scientists have struggled to define the stuff that comprises a quarter of the universe: dark matter. As experiments continue to turn up empty-handed, one team hopes to find dark matter by incorporating the laws that govern subatomic particles”quantum mechanics”with a nascent kind of technology called a quantum computer. It’s what’s brought Fermilab scientist…