Tag Archives: One million

In the dawn of the universe, astronomers have found a stack at cosmic proportions. At least 21 galaxies forming stars at a tremendous rate, merging together in the early stages of the …

Sometimes you don’t know what you have until you leave. Valviloculus pleristaminis Makes for a perfect example. Scientists recently identified this mysterious, extinct flower. It once blossomed in the Cretaceous period – …

The discovery of a 2 million year old skull in a South African cave is changing what we think we know about one of humanity’s primitive ancestors, scientists reported in a new …

According to new research, a sub-underground ‘conveyor belt’ of magma pushed across the Earth’s surface for millions of years was responsible for the longest stretch of supervolcanoes ever seen. Researchers said a …

How long have mammals been social animals? According to a new study, at least since the Late Cretaceous part of the Dinosaur era, which holds back the earliest evidence of behavior for …

The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has expanded in recent years to one of its largest recorded sizes. In 2019, scientists revealed that the Antarctic ozone hole had reached its …

Microplastics can now be found in almost every environment on Earth, but scientists are surprisingly little aware that the products we use every day shed these tiny plastic particles. If you drink …

As geological puzzles go, this is great. In the global greenhouse conditions of the early eosin (56–48 million years ago), how are the vast number of giant glendonite crystals formed? These rare …

At first glance, apparently a bit of greenery appears in the barren expanse of the Sahel and the Sahara Desert, but detailed satellite imagery combined with computer-deep learning reveals a different picture. …

Stars are born under their own gravity as dense clouds of interstitial material, rotating in flat disks that eventually spin into child stars. Now, for the first time, signs of planet formation …