After a journey full of surprises since it was discovered last year, fading and bursting back with a vivid tail, comet ISON surprised scientists and sky gazers alike one more time. In what was considered a final encounter with the sun, after ages of being drug by gravity from the outer reaches by our system's […]
With only 30% chance of surviving its Thanksgiving encounter with our sun, the comet ISON has the world's scientists and sky-gazers watching with bated breath for what could be a spectacular sight as it comes back into view, or the end of the comet's life.
MIT researchers find that rain as acidic as lemon juice may have contributed to massive die-offs on land 252 million years ago.
The genome sequence of a 24,000-year-old Siberian individual has provided a key piece of the puzzle in the quest for Native American origins. The ancient Siberian demonstrates genomic signatures that are basal to present-day western Eurasians and close to modern Native Americans.