Centuries ago, a ship sank in the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia. The wooden hull of the shipwreck disintegrated over time, leaving only a treasure trove of cargo. The ship had been carrying thousands of ceramics and luxury goods for trade, and they remained on the ocean floor until the 1980s when the ...
Around 30,000 years ago, realistic Ice Age art suddenly flourished in Europe. Extremely accurate depictions of bears, bison, horses, and lions decorate the walls of Ice Age archaeological sites such as Chauvet Cave in southern France. The ability to focus on detail, a common trait among people with autism, allowed realism to flourish in Ice ...
Scientists agree the Sun will die in approximately 5 billion years, but they weren’t sure what would happen next… until now. A team of international astronomers, including Professor Albert Zijlstra, from the School of Physics & Astronomy, predict it will turn into a massive ring of luminous, interstellar gas and dust, known as a planetary nebula. A planetary ...
Research shows that the more skills children bring with them to kindergarten — in basic math, reading, and even friendship and cooperation — the more likely they will succeed at school in those same areas. Hence, “kindergarten readiness” is the goal of many preschool programs and a motivator for many parents. Now, it’s time to ...
A Multiverse — where our Universe is only one of many — might not be as inhospitable to life as previously thought, according to new research. Questions about whether other universes might exist as part of a larger Multiverse, and if they could harbor life, are burning issues in modern cosmology. Now new research led ...
A global expert on infrastructure says that China’s Silk Road plan to crisscross half of the Earth with massive transportation and energy projects is environmentally the riskiest venture ever undertaken. Distinguished Professor William Laurance from James Cook University in Australia notes: “China has enormous ambitions. “But with that comes enormous responsibilities.” Writing in the Nature Sustainability journal, ...
Astronomers at ANU have found the fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe, describing it as a monster that devours a mass equivalent to our sun every two days. The astronomers have looked back more than 12 billion years to the early dark ages of the Universe, when this supermassive black hole was estimated to ...
Are we truly the first advanced Earthlings to inhabit this forth rock from the sun? Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile-high buildings. A preposterous idea, right? Over the course of tens of millions of years, however, all of the direct evidence of a civilization — its artifacts ...
Crescent dunes and meandering rivers can “forget” their initial shapes as they are carved and reshaped by wind and water, while other landforms keep a memory of their past shape, suggests new research. Leif Ristroph from New York University and the senior author of the paper, which is published in the journal Physical Review Fluids, said: “Asking ...
Latest research finds plant debris in lake sediment affects the methane greenhouse gas emissions. The flourishing reed beds created by changing climates could threaten to double the already significant methane production of the world’s northern lakes. A new study of chemical reactions that occur when organic matter decomposes in freshwater lakes has revealed that the ...
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