The South American lungfish probably has a lot of “junk” DNAKatherine Seghers/Louisiana State University There is a new record for the largest genome to be sequenced, set at a massive 90 billion letters of DNA. It belongs to the South...
The altar stone lies inside Stonehenge’s two big rings of stonesGavin Hellier/roberthrding/Getty Images A study of the 6-tonne altar stone at the heart of Stonehenge has shown that it was almost certainly brought there from north-east Scotland, much further than...
This time last year, Dean Grubbs and his colleagues were celebrating a conservation success story. The star was the smalltooth sawfish, a type of large ray with a saw-like snout trimmed with tiny teeth. A victim of coastal development and...
August 14, 20242 min readSpaceX Set to Launch First-Ever Crew over Earth's PolesLaunching in late 2024, the Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight to explore the planet's polar regionsBy Mike Wall & SPACE.comA SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft rests...
August 14, 20243 min readMars Hides Colossal Ocean Deep Below Its SurfaceAn underground Martian ocean could hold enough liquid to cover the Red Planet with a mile of waterBy Ben Turner & LiveScienceUsing data collected by NASA's InSight Lander, researchers...
August 14, 20243 min readStonehenge’s Strangest Rock Came from 500 Miles AwayA new analysis of Stonehenge’s “Altar Stone” suggests Neolithic people walked or sailed some 500 miles to transport the six-ton boulderBy Meghan Bartels Shanna Baker/Getty ImagesOne of the massive...
The Altamura Man skeleton in Lamalunga caveCostantino Buzi This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox for free every month. Have you heard of Altamura Man? Since...
Freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) are at risk from toxic cane toadsPaul Mayall Wildlife/Alamy Wild crocodiles in Australia keep dying from eating toxic cane toads, so scientists have trained them to avoid the deadly meal by giving them a memorable dose...
Will psychedelic drugs like MDMA ever be approved for therapeutic uses?South Agency/Getty Images Roughly one year ago, thousands of people gathered in Denver, Colorado, for the largest psychedelic conference in history. The mood was electric, with most attendees confident that...
Martian water may be lurking beneath – or even above – the planet’s surfaceNASA/JPL/USGS Mars is not as arid as it may seem. Billions of years ago, the surface of the Red Planet rippled with oceans and rivers of liquid...
