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Could dark matter have been forged in a 'Dark Big Bang?'

Our common understanding of the universe tells us that all matter and energy were created at the beginning of time during a period of rapid inflation called the Big Bang. However, in 2023, Katherine Freese, director of the Texas Center for Cosmology ...

Did Venus ever have oceans to support life, or was it 'born hot'?

The findings are the work of a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge. They arrived at their conclusions by examining the chemical composition of the Venusian atmosphere. The team's research, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, could ...

China reveals secrets of 1st sample taken from the far side of the moon — and it contains a volcanic surprise

Active volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon 2.8 billion years ago, the first lunar samples returned from the far side reveal. Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

BepiColombo probe captures haunting Mercury image on 5th of 6 gravity assist flybys (photo)

The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet this week, capturing another haunting image as it zoomed by. On Sunday (Dec. 1), BepiColombo made its fifth of six flybys of Mercury. On this most recent rendezvous, ...

Fruit flies in space! Chinese astronauts show off experiment on Tiangong space station (video)

The study aims to assess the impacts of sub-magnetic fields and microgravity on the insects.

12 strange reasons humans haven't found alien life yet

He was talking about aliens. Today, scientists know that there are millions, perhaps billions of planets in the universe that could sustain life. So, in the long history of ...

Evidence of primordial black holes may be hiding in planets, or even everyday objects here on Earth

Imagine the formation of a black hole and you'll probably envision a massive star running out of fuel and collapsing in on itself. Yet the chaotic conditions of the early universe may have also allowed many small black holes to form long before the ...

New, big-headed archaic humans discovered: Who is Homo juluensis?

Researchers have named a new species in the Homo genus. What do we know about these "big headed" people? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's how it works. image showing various Asian hominin skulls, ...

A 65000-Year-Old Hearth Reveals Evidence That Neanderthals Produced Tar for Stone Tools in Iberia

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December 2, 2024 1:48 p.m.. Arrow spear Scientists created a spear using tar they produced from a makeshift hearth to test whether Neanderthals might have used ...

Physics experiment proves patterns in chaos in peculiar quantum realm

Patterns in chaos have been proven, in the incredibly tiny quantum realm, by an international team co-led by UC Santa Cruz physicist Jairo Velasco, Jr. In a new paper published on November 27 in Nature, the researchers detail an experiment that ...