Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has a message for everyone around the world: wear your mask. The actor and former wrestler revealed Wednesday that he and his family had tested positive for COVID-19. "I wanted to give you guys a little helpful update on things that have been going on...
New ancient DNA research finds that Northern mastodon populations were less genetically diverse and more vulnerable to extinction. New research suggests that American mastodons were avid travelers, migrating vast distances across North America in response to dramatic climate change during the ice ages of the Pleistocene. The study, conducted by...
Earlier this week, Elon Musk said there’s a “good chance” settlers in the first Mars missions will die. And while that’s easy to imagine, he and others are working hard to plan and minimize the risk of death by hardship or accident. In fact, the goal is to have...
A binary black hole merger likely produced gravitational waves equal to the energy of eight suns. For all its vast emptiness, the universe is humming with activity in the form of gravitational waves. Produced by extreme astrophysical phenomena, these reverberations ripple forth and shake the fabric of space-time, like the...
Melting glaciers have increased the volume of glacial lakes by 50% in just 30 years, Scientists have found. A new study led by Dr. Dan Shugar, PhD, with collaborators from governments and universities in Canada, the United States and United Kingdom, uses satellite data from NASA and Google Earth...
In a study published in PNAS, researchers used conservation biology and genomics to discover that the New Guinea singing dog, thought to be extinct for 50 years, still thrives. Scientists found that the ancestral dog population still stealthily wanders in the Highlands of New Guinea. This finding opens new...
Guess Germany isn’t returning to live yet after all. Bryan Adams was set to headline a German stadium concert called “Return To Live” at Düsseldorf’s Merkur Spiel-Arena next Friday, but Billboard reports that the show has now been pushed from the summer of ’20 to the “late fall” of...
Marvel has released a short film in tribute to Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, who died late last week after a long battle with colon cancer at the age of 43. The end title of Marvel’s tribute is simple and memorable: “You will always be our king.” The tribute features Boseman...
If not for the pandemic, today would have marked the start of Notting Hill Carnival, a celebration of West Indies culture in Britain that dates back to the 1960s. But while the coronavirus has cancelled those plans, Adele chose to participate anyway, with a picture of herself in a...
By creating conditions akin to the center of the Earth inside a laboratory chamber, researchers have improved the estimate of the age of our planet's solid inner core, putting it at 1 billion to 1.3 billion years old. The results place the core at the younger end of an age...