According to NASA, the Perseids is considered the best meteor shower of the year, largely due to the long streaks of color they leave as they head through our atmosphere, as well as their sheer ...

That study found that when asked to choose random numbers between one and five, the LLMS would choose three or four. For between one and 10, most would choose five and seven, and between one and 100, ...

There are more ways than we knew for the stratospheric polar vortex to get disrupted, shooting cold air southwards across ...

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P rehistoric footprints found at the southwestern tip of mainland Europe show how Neanderthal families worked together to ambush prey on the beach. Dated to around 80,000 years ago, the trackways were ...

Now, why this happens is a question we’re not quite sure about – but there may be a clue in the fact that we’re not alone.

So, why exactly was it so unpredictable in the air? Fortunately, US space agency NASA stepped in to investigate. NASA scientists at the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center ...

N eanderthals and Homo sapiens repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and merged populations over the course of nearly 250,000 ...

Squeaks, clicks, buzzes, and babbling, little is off the cards when it comes to the remarkable complexity of beluga communication, but perhaps most extraordinary of all is the way in which they can ...

“Theorists have long postulated for decades that the brain might be using unsupervised learning,” first author and research scientist at HHMI, Lin Zhong, told IFLScience. “Humans definitely employ ...

The product Is hundreds of times heavier than the Sun, sixty percent greater than the previous record-holder, and challenges ...

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...