Fossils suggest tree-dwelling apes walked upright long before hominids did Posted on November 09, 2019 by quaezar In News Tree-dwelling apes in Europe strode upright around 5 million years before members of the human evolutionary family hit the ground walking in Africa. That’s the implication of fossils from a […]Read more Fossils suggest tree-dwelling apes walked upright long before hominids did
Einstein killed the aether. Now the idea is back to save relativity Posted on October 31, 2019 by quaezar In News AS FAR as dead ideas go, the luminiferous aether is among the deadest. Over a century ago, it picked a fight with Einstein’s theory of relativity and lost. Few victories […]Read more Einstein killed the aether. Now the idea is back to save relativity
Vampire bat friendships endure from captivity to the wild Posted on October 31, 2019 by quaezar In News Are friendships formed with those we truly like? Or do we settle for whoever happens to be around? This question is hard to answer in humans, and even harder in […]Read more Vampire bat friendships endure from captivity to the wild
SOFIA Spots Debris from Catastrophic Collision between Two Rocky Exoplanets Posted on October 26, 2019 by quaezar In News Astronomers using NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have observed an unusually warm, dusty debris disk around BD +20 307, a binary star system located 300 light-years away in […]Read more SOFIA Spots Debris from Catastrophic Collision between Two Rocky Exoplanets