Tipler Cylinders: Using a giant spinning tube to travel back in time
Time travel into the future is not only possible, it's practically unstoppable. You might try traveling at near the speed of light or parking near a giant gravity well –…
Giant scorpion 400 million years old may be a crustacean | Sci.News
Sea scorpions (eurypterids), extinct giant aquatic arthropods, were apex predators. New research suggests that early species of the scorpion-like, spiny-limbed carcinosomatoid eurypterids fed on trilobites, while later species favored armored…
Discovery of remains of ancient giant viruses offers new clues to the origins of complex life
A new study has found that the genetic code of the single-celled Amoebidium contains remnants of ancient giant viruses, offering insights into the genetic evolution of complex life. This finding…
An ancient giant armadillo shows that South America had people much earlier than previously thought
Researchers have found evidence of butchery marks on the back of an ancient armadillo-like animal, suggesting that humans were in South America 20,000 years ago - earlier than many researchers…
Giant armadillo fossils reveal humans were in South America a surprisingly long time ago | CNN
Miguel Eduardo Delgado and others. Martin De Los Reyes (left) and Guillermo Joffre, two of the researchers involved in the study, discovered fossils of an extinct Ice Age armadillo relative…
NASA Removes Artemis 2 Giant Lunar Rocket Core from Plant for Astronaut Mission (Video)
NEW ORLEANS — The main stage of the first rocket to launch astronauts to the moon in more than 50 years has left its manufacturing facilities and is slated for…
A giant species of salamander found in what was thought to be an ice ecosystem
K. Marsicano Gaiasia jennyae, a newly discovered freshwater apex predator with a body length of up to 4.5 meters, lurking in swamps and lakes about 280 million years ago. Its…
Scientists have successfully created a time crystal made of giant atoms
Experimental protocol and phase diagram of the mean field. credit: Natural physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02542-9 A crystal is an arrangement of atoms that repeats itself in space at regular intervals:…
Giant dinosaur skeleton discovered in US state: ‘incredibly unusual’ 30ft Cretaceous monster nearly intact in ‘rare’ find dating back 80 MILLION years
The most complete dinosaur fossil ever found in Mississippi, called "incredibly unusual" by state officials, still remains 85 percent buried since its discovery in 2007.Paleontologists have confirmed that the specimen…
Giant, ancient crabs live beneath Rome, and conservationists have their backs: ‘They deserve to be saved’
These giant freshwater crabs could be your new Roman Empire.Archaeologists studying Trajan's Forum, a historic Roman ruin, in 2005 discovered an ancient type of cancer, Potamon fluviatile. The only freshwater…