Browsing: Science

A metal detectorist in Germany has discovered a Viking Age hoard that includes about 200 riches from the European world, including Arabic coins, ingots, and a…

Gold is a heavy metal and one of Earth’s rarer elements, formed in space when neutron stars collide. But just how rare is gold on Earth,…

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A…

Name: Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius)Where it lives: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and northeastern AustraliaWhat it eats: Fruit, seeds, fungi, insects, snails, fish, frogs, small birds, small…

A pair of 14,000-year-old “puppies” found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving they were actually wolf cub sisters and not…

The world is awash with the color purple — lavender flowers, amethyst gemstones, plums, eggplants and purple emperor butterflies. But if you look closely at the…

This week’s science news saw us looking deep into the cosmos and the depths of our oceans.To understand the universe today, we need to look back…

Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo of…

Humans have unique breathing patterns that can be used to identify and distinguish individuals, a new study has found.In the work, published Thursday (June 12) in…

Astronomers have discovered that the “dark sides” of Uranus’ largest moons aren’t where they originally thought — and in some cases are on the complete opposite…