Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg [13,000 lbs]). This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that roamed the landscape ...
Planet Earth Rivers & Oceans Antarctica's Southern Ocean might be gearing up for a thermal 'burp' that could last a century When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global ...
Archaeology 'It was very very good': Ötzi the Iceman's body is covered in ancient yeast — and scientists just used it to make a sourdough A new study cultivated four strains of cold-adapted yeasts ...
Olivia Maule is a science journalist whose beats include space, biotechnology and the environment. She holds a B.A. in biology and a B.S. in anthropology from the University of Florida and completed a ...
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius buried a vast collection of scrolls in ash and scorched them into solid black lumps. Now, without unrolling them, researchers have virtually read two of them — ...
The diminutive, now-extinct humans known as the "hobbits" were scavengers who dined on dwarf elephants after Komodo dragons took the best cuts, archaeologists have discovered. The finding upends the ...
Space Astronomy James Webb telescope may have discovered a mysterious, never-before-seen substance on Pluto and Titan A new study has identified a very specific wavelength of light missing from both ...
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To get to the bottom of the 500-year-old Medici cold case, an international group of researchers tested the bones of two of Cosimo I's sons: Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici and Grand Duke Francesco I de' ...
Space Astronomy Strawberry Moon 2026: Tonight's full moon is the lowest, and one of the smallest 'micromoons' all year June's full Strawberry Moon will be the lowest-hanging and one of the smallest ...
Planet Earth Climate change 'Uncharted territory': Record high ocean temperatures confirmed for June as El Niño strengthens its grip Global sea surface temperatures reached record highs for June as a ...
Dead-end bitcoin mining wastes as much energy as Switzerland's entire hydropower generation capacity
Network latency in bitcoin mining is driving massive energy waste — the annual equivalent of the total generation capacity of Switzerland's entire hydroelectric power system, scientists say. This ...
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