Growing quickly helped the earliest dinosaurs and other ancient reptiles flourish in the aftermath of mass extinction
It may be hard to imagine, but once upon a time, dinosaurs didn’t dominate their…
Australian ‘bush glass’ bears the fingerprints of a cosmic collision with an iron meteorite
How Earth and the other planets of the solar system formed and evolved over the…
An earthquake scientist on what we know so far and what may happen next
Earlier today, a major earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck the central east coast of Taiwan,…
A solar eclipse and a black hole can both bend light
During night-like conditions created during the totality of a solar eclipse, like that of April…
Looking to photograph a solar eclipse with your smartphone? Try these features and think about creative angles
As the Moon casts its shadow across the Earth during the upcoming solar eclipse, cameras…
What it’s like to have no visual imagination or inner voice
Look at these pictures. Can you see a cube on the left and a face…
How nature can alter our sense of time
Do you ever get that feeling that there aren’t enough hours in the day? That…
What we learned from teaching a course on the science of happiness
When you deliver a university course that makes students happier, everybody wants to know what…
Stingray sand ‘sculpture’ on South Africa’s coast may be oldest example of humans creating an image of another creature
South Africa’s Cape south coast offers many hints about how our human ancestors lived some…
Why did modern humans replace the Neanderthals? The key might lie in our social structures
Why did humans take over the world while our closest relatives, the Neanderthals, became extinct?…