Several Egyptian gods are depicted with animal heads. Horus has a falcon head, Anubis has a jackal head, Thoth has an ibis head (except when he’s a baboon), and Set has…uhh, what is that, exactly? Left to right: Horus, Anubis, … Read more
Elements The Mystery of Dark Oxygen Illustration by Lina Müller Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story In March, I accompanied an international team of scientists on an expedition to one of the deepest places that humans … Read more
The mystery surrounding the identity of Everest’s infamous ‘Green Boots’ climber has finally been solved after a DNA test. For almost 30 years, the body of the climber – preserved in snow and ice high on the world’s tallest mountain – became … Read more
Lots of people die after overdosing on acetaminophen (paracetamol, often sold as Tylenol or Panadol). In the U.S., it’s estimated to cause 56,000 emergency department visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths per year. Acetaminophen has a scarily narrow therapeutic window. … Read more
3 days ago ShareSave Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney ShareSave Australian Museum In 1943, a camouflaged ship set off from Australia to England carrying top secret cargo – a single young platypus. Named after his would-be owner, UK prime minister … Read more
The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a NASA-funded discovery that RNA — a key molecule thought to have potentially held the instructions for life before DNA emerged — can favor making the building … Read more
iStock Relatively few people are lefties, and it’s a puzzle why. Still, the science of handedness is revealing fascinating insights about you – from how it could change the way you think, to the fact that you might be ‘left-eared’. … Read more
Two axe-heads, which are believed to be more than 4,000 years old, have been sent to the National Museum of Ireland by an anonymous letter writer. Staff at the museum described them as a “significant archaeological find”. They are now … Read more
Executive Summary Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs identified a destructive event, as over 600,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers were taken offline belonging to a single internet service provider (ISP). The incident took place over a 72-hour period between October … Read more
An artist’s visualization of the BOAT, consisting of jets from a central black hole and the surrounding remains of a star going supernova.Illustration: Aaron M. Geller / Northwestern / CIERA / IT Research Computing and Data Services In October 2022, … Read more