Redheads are a rare breed, with ginger hair accounting for less than 2% of the global population. With such low numbers, would it be possible for red hair to go “extinct”, leaving people with natural hair ranging from black to blonde with no hint of red? In a word, no. Experts told Live Science how …
Great white sharks can launch themselves out of the ocean, but why they move so dramatically is one of the greatest mysteries of marine biology. “Air Jaws: Red, White & Breach,” which will premiere during “Shark Week” 2026, follows a team of filmmakers and scientists who investigate shark behavior. “Shark Week” is now in its …
Science word of the day: Cenozoic Pronunciation: see-noh-zoh’-ihk What does it mean: The rise of mammals, the birth of the Himalayas, the diversification of birds – the Earth is in its Cenozoic era, baby! The Cenozoic is a geological era that is currently ongoing. It began 66 million years ago with a sudden mass extinction …
Science word of the day: lithics Pronunciation: LITH’-iks What does it mean: In archeologyLithics refers to artifacts made of stone. scientists thought homo sapiens They were the only human species to make stone tools. But like many overly simplistic stories about human evolution, this story proved to be worthless. In Indonesia, humans were making sharp-edged …
Beyond familiar particles like electrons and protons, scientists have discovered a zoo of “quasiparticles” that have exotic names, such as magnon, angulon, dropleton, and polariton. But what exactly are quasiparticles? And given “semi” in their name, are they considered true particles? One way to understand quasiparticles is to figure out what a particle is. The …
Archaeologists in El Salvador have discovered the unusual burial of a human skeleton, buried about 3,000 years ago, along with a ceramic vessel in the shape of a sea turtle. The burial may be from a pre-Maya civilization in which human sacrifice was practiced. According to a translation statement The burial was found in Antiguo …
When OpenAI recently revealed that two of its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models escaped cybersecurity testing and got hacked into a startup, looking a lot like the kind of scenario that AI security researchers have warned about for years. The models found previously unknown vulnerabilities in the infrastructure built to contain them, gained access …
Sculpture exposed in Mingtepa, Samarkand, Uzbekistan Samarkand, Uzbekistan—probable remains from the eighth century Advertisement The palace has been discovered at the Mingtepa archaeological site in southeastern Uzbekistan, according to a kun.uz Report. Yahyo Gulomov Amriddin Berdimuradov, Khusnidin Rakhmonov and Nigora Makhkamova of the Samarkand Archaeological Institute explored the palace complex within the citadel at the …
In the late 1990s, scientists working in the Ajimu area of Oita Prefecture, Japan uncovered three fossilized vertebrae from a giant salamander. Cryptobranchidae Family. The bones were preserved in the Tsubusugawa Formation, a layer of ancient lake sediments dating to the Pliocene period, about 3.5 million years ago. Other fossils found in the same formation …
buckets of gold and coins MLJet, Croatia-reuters A shipwreck found more than 10 years ago near an island in the Adriatic Sea off the southern coast of Croatia is reported to date back to the seventh or eighth century. Advertisement After analyzing remains found at the site, archaeologists have also determined that the ship was …