Humans May Have Been Using Primitive Vehicles in North America as Far Back as 22,000 Years Ago
Archaeologists have discovered the trails of what may be the world’s earliest vehicles, having etched their tracks in well-preserved mud around 22,000 years ago. Additionally, the primitive conveyances weren’t being pulled by someone from an Old World culture, but instead by people in North America—thousands of years before anyone was
Can We Get To Mars Using a Spacecraft Powered With Ordinary Water?
The demand for a more sustainable and accessible fuel for spacecraft has prompted a research team, led coordinated by the University of Bologna, to adapt a fuel that is at once readily abundant, not only on Earth but throughout the cosmos, while at the same time being non-toxic to the
Chernobyl Containment Facility ‘Lifetime is Now Compromised’ by Armed Drone Strike
The damage caused by a drone strike on the massive structure that contains the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in mid-February may be worse than initially feared, with the detection of numerous small fires still burning in between the outer shell’s layers, and the realization that there appears to be no
Your Daily Dose of Existential Dread: The Universe Could Collapse on the Way Down the Quantum Roller-Coaster
While the very concept of the fabric of space and time may seem like the only stable constant left in our modern lives, a recent study has confirmed that the energy state of the very vacuum that spans the cosmos may collapse at any moment, restructuring the very nature of
Rapidly Melting Permafrost Has Tipped the Arctic Into Being a Net Greenhouse Gas Emitter
Global warming’s disproportionate effect on the planet’s polar regions has turned the Arctic into a net carbon emitter, with one-third of the region’s forests, tundra and wetlands now emitting more greenhouse gases than they absorb as the previously-frozen permafrost thaws. “It is the first time that we’re seeing this shift
