Category: Science
Scientists Dated the Catastrophic Pompeii Eruption Using Only Rocks. Here’s How Close They Got
According to Pliny the Younger, Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24th, 79 CE. That date is now helping...
Spammer Keeps Whining About Large Hadron Collider Assploding
Dear Moron Physicist Who Can’t Write Proper English,https://gizmodo.com/cern-to-morons-large-hadron-collider-wont-destroy-eart-374066I hope you are right about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider exploding...
Humans Didn’t Evolve From a Single Ancestral Population
In the 1980s, scientists learned that all humans living today are descended from a woman, dubbed “Mitochondrial Eve,”...
Nazi Germany Couldn’t Have Built a Working Reactor, Let Alone a Bomb, Study Finds
Contrary to historical documents, Nazi Germany’s nuclear program was far from achieving criticality.
NASA to Make Big-Bada-Boom
NASA is planning on crashing a space probe into the moon in 2009. The explosion will be visible...
Boeing’s Starliner Faces a Critical Test This Year as NASA Runs Out of Options
With SpaceX's Crew Dragon set to retire, the agency is forced to bet on Boeing's troubled spacecraft.
Archaeologists Unearth a Medieval Woman Buried With a Child in Her Arms
While further analysis is necessary to reveal their identities, 'there must have been a close relationship,' explains archaeologist...
A Toddler Who Lived 3 Million Years Ago Could Walk Upright and Capably Climb Trees
A re-analysis of a three-million-year-old fossil suggests Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominid, had children who were as capable...
iPod From Orbit
The story goes like this: when Apple CEO Steve Jobs won an abandoned mineral mine in western Australia...
Starship Has Finally Gone Orbital. Now Comes the Hard Part
Reaching orbit for the first time was a major milestone for Starship, but the road to commercial viability...
