Fossil places extinct saber-toothed cat on Texas coast
Important scientific finds don't always come in the biggest, buzziest packages. Sometimes new discoveries come in little ugly rocks. Such is the case of a 6-centimeter-wide, nondescript mass of bone and teeth that helped a scientist at The University.....»»
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A Quiet Place is getting even bigger with a video game out this year
Saber Interactive is publishing A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, a single-player horror game due out later this year......»»
Best Buy laptop deals: Cheap laptops starting at $140
Best Buy is one of the best places to buy a laptop online, and with these Best Buy laptop deals it's one of the best places to save on a new laptop as well......»»
Earthquake of magnitude 6.3 strikes off southern Peru
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Peru on Sunday but there was no immediate threat of tsunami, government scientists said......»»
Researchers map genome of the last living wild horse species
University of Minnesota researchers have successfully mapped the complete genome of the endangered Przewalski's horse. Once extinct in the wild, the species now has a population of around 2,000 animals thanks to conservation efforts......»»
You can help name LA"s newest dinosaur fossil?
The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum is seeking the public's help in naming a 70-foot-long sauropod skeleton unearthed by the museum's paleontologists......»»
Makah Tribe will again be allowed to hunt gray whales off Washington coast
Not since the spring of 1999 have members of the Makah Tribe filed into a cedar canoe and paddled off Washington's coast to legally harpoon a gray whale, trailing its body back to shore for celebration and ceremony......»»
Shackleton died on board the Quest; ship’s wreckage has just been found
"His final voyage kind of ended that Heroic Age of Exploration." Enlarge / Ernest Shackleton died on board the Quest in 1922. Forty years later, the ship sank off Canada's Atlantic Coast. (credit: Tore Topp/Royal Canadian Geograp.....»»
Finding an insurance policy is getting harder in places hit by extreme weather
You don't need to be a scientist to understand the harms of climate change. All you need is an insurance policy. And finding affordable insurance is getting harder in the places hit hardest by climate change......»»
Tenways CGO800S review: More utility than bike, but maybe that’s OK
It's not cargo, it's not aero; it's just a bike for comfortably going places. Enlarge (credit: Tenways) I enjoyed riding the Tenways CGO800S far more once I stopped thinking of it as a bike, and more like the e-bike vers.....»»
Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing
Software updates strike again, leaving interpolated frames in unwanted places. Enlarge / Motion smoothing was making images uncanny and weird long before AI got here. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Roku) Roku TV.....»»
NASA satellite returns image of sea ice swirls
NASA's Terra satellite captured floating fragments of sea ice as ocean currents carried them south along Greenland's east coast on June 4, 2024......»»
The US is losing wetlands at an accelerating rate—how the private sector can help protect these valuable resources
Wetlands aren't the most eye-catching ecosystems. They include swamps, bogs, fens and other places where soil is covered by water most of the time. But they perform a huge range of valuable services, from soaking up floodwaters to filtering out pollu.....»»
Paleontologists identify a new fossil fish genus
Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich groups of marine and freshwater fish in Europe. Spending most of their lives on the bottom of shallow waterbodies, they make substantial contributions to the functioning of many ecosystems......»»
Wreck of the last ship of famed Anglo-Irish explorer Shackleton found off the coast of Canada
The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica, has been found off the coast of Labrador in Canada, 62 years after it went missing. The wreck was found by an international team led by.....»»
Pacific coast gray whales have gotten 13% shorter in the past 20–30 years, study finds
Gray whales that spend their summers feeding in the shallow waters off the Pacific Northwest coast have undergone a significant decline in body length since around the year 2000, a new Oregon State University study has found......»»
Researchers find rare organ preservation in Brazilian fossil fishes
Fossils in Brazil indicate a more complex evolutionary history for ray-finned fish brains than previously anticipated, according to new research......»»
New research suggests prior studies of ancient sea creature Pikaia had it upside down
A team of marine biologists, Earth scientists and evolutionary specialists affiliated with several institutions in the U.K., has found that prior researchers studying a fossil of an ancient sea creature called Pikaia were looking at it upside down. I.....»»
Humans are the elephant in the room when it comes to conservation models
Humans are outsized actors in the world's wild places where there are struggles to preserve and protect vital natural resources and animals, birds and plants. Yet people and their plus-sized footprint are rarely discussed in models seeking to predict.....»»
Cruise robocars make a cautious return to Houston
Robocar specialist Cruise is restarting tests of its autonomous vehicles on the streets of Houston, Texas, following issues with its technology last year......»»
Study finds ocean warming pushes giant Atlantic bluefin northwards
A new study led by Irish scientists has found giant Atlantic bluefin tuna are moving further north in response to marine heat waves off the Irish coast......»»