Within the world’s oldest crystals, collected from the Jack Hills in Western Australia, lie the remains of even older rocks—some of which have been reprocessed by magma into the remaining crystals. Using machine learning, geologists have revealed that a third of these ancient rocks were sedimentary. This means that more than four billion years ago, … Read more
The Antikythera Mechanism – an ancient shoebox-sized device used to track the movements of the sun, moon and planets – followed the Greek lunar calendar, not the solar calendar used by the Egyptians as previously thought, new research reveals. The Antikythera Mechanismfound by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, was made … Read more
NASA’s oldest active astronaut will return to space in September for a six-month mission. Don Pettit, 69, will go to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Roscosmos-led Soyuz MS-26 mission, which also includes Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Russian state media source TASS said this week that the launch date … Read more
NASA’s oldest active astronaut will return to space in September for a six-month mission. Don Pettit, 69, will go to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Roscosmos-led Soyuz MS-26 mission, which also includes Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Russian state media source TASS said this week that the launch date … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a massive storm that has been swirling in the atmosphere of the largest planet in the solar system for years. But astronomers have debated how old the … Read more
Paleontologists in South Africa said they have found the world’s oldest known burial site, containing the remains of a distant relative with small brains of humans previously thought to be incapable of complex behavior. Led by famed paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, researchers in 2023 said they had discovered several specimens Homo naledi – a tree-climbing Stone … Read more
The face of our oldest human ancestor has been recreated (Photo: Cicero Moraes/Pen News) If you’ve ever wondered what your ancestors looked like 300,000 years ago, look no further. The face of the oldest known human has been reconstructed for the first time, revealing a man described as ‘strong and serene’. It was created by … Read more
The face of our oldest human ancestor has been recreated (Photo: Cicero Moraes/Pen News) If you’ve ever wondered what your ancestors looked like 300,000 years ago, look no further. The face of the oldest known human has been reconstructed for the first time, revealing a man described as ‘strong and serene’. It was created by … Read more
Sydney, Australia: Three quarters of all matter in the universe consists of hydrogen. The early Earth was also rich in hydrogen, thanks to intense geological and volcanic activity. Just as stars burn hydrogen to produce heat and light through nuclear reactions, life emerged by extracting energy from this simple molecule through chemical reactions. Some of … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Reconstruction of the oldest sea-going reptile in the Southern Hemisphere. Nothosaurs swim along the ancient south polar coast of what is now New Zealand about 246 million years ago. Credit: Stavros Kundromichalis × close to Reconstruction of the oldest sea-going … Read more