Smithsonian Magazine22h
National Museum of Natural History Scientists Discover That Ancient Insects Perfected Their Plant Palates 165 Million Years Ago
The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN20h
Vesuvius Turned a Roman Man’s Brain Into Glass. Now, Scientists Reveal How the Extremely Rare Preservation Happened
The remains of a young man, found in his bed in the destroyed town of Herculaneum, included glassy fragments that had mystified archaeologists ...
today.ucsd5h
8 Trailblazing Women Educators Who Paved the Way at UC San Diego
In recognition of this year’s campuswide Women’s History Month theme, “Empowerment Echoes: Celebrating Women Who Advocate and ...
The Wesleyan Argus10h
From the Argives: Thinking Inside the Box: The Professor Who Invented Calories in Judd Hall Basement
“As is well known the pioneer work has been done in the Chemical Laboratory of Wesleyan,” The Argus reflected. “A large part ...
This NASA Mission Could Reveal Where The Building Blocks Of Life Originated
The SPHEREx mission will map the entire sky in the infrared wavelength to better understand the history of the universe ...
Water might be older than we first thought, forming a key constituent of the first galaxies
Water may have first formed 100–200 million years after the Big Bang, according to a modeling paper published in Nature ...
Water Existed in the Universe Billions of Years Earlier Than Thought, Astronomers Say
Water was present just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, according to a new study, shaking up the timeline ...
Science News23h
The universe’s first supernovas probably produced water
Water may have formed less than 200 million years after the Big Bang, suggesting some conditions for life existed far earlier than previously thought.