The portrait confirms that Charlemagne had a short neck. A rare 1,200-year-old silver coin featuring Charlemagne — one of the only known portraits made of the emperor during his lifetime — was recently rediscovered and promptly taken on a wild journey from a farm in France, to the bidding groundsContinue Reading
Great white sharks are anything but mindless killers. Great white sharks, (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as white sharks, are the largest predatory fish in the world. They belong to a partially “warm-blooded” family of sharks called Lamnidae, or mackerel sharks, that are able to maintain an internal body temperature that’sContinue Reading
A star in a galaxy that is now more than 27 billion light years away may allow us to understand the very first stars after the big bang A star more than 27 billion light years from Earth is the most distant individual one we have seen. Because light takesContinue Reading
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union came up with a new way to classify planets that famously saw Pluto downgraded. Now a new row has started as astronomers try to define exoplanets What is a planet? Despite decades of trying, astronomers still haven’t found a definition that everyone can agreeContinue Reading
With its mirrors now focused, the observatory’s science instruments are now being readied for work After James Webb Space Telescope officials released a stunning image of a single star, the team is ready to get other telescope parts in line with the observatory’s mirrors. The $10 billion telescope successfully alignedContinue Reading
Most bears live in the Northern Hemisphere; polar bears are no exception. The Arctic and Antarctica, while similar habitats in some ways, are home to very different creatures. Both poles host a variety of seal and whale species, but only the Arctic is home to Earth’s largest bear, the polarContinue Reading
The sarcophagus is made of lead. Archaeologists at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which caught fire nearly three years ago, have discovered a previously unknown 14th-century leaden sarcophagus along with other burials, according to France’s culture ministry. It’s not clear who was buried in the sarcophagus, but it was likelyContinue Reading
The Amazon may be nearing a “tipping point.” If deforestation continues, the Amazon rainforest could reach a critical tipping point where most of it transforms into a dry savanna, a new study warns. The study, published Monday (March 7) in the journal Nature Climate Change, suggests that more than 75%Continue Reading
Web vibrations help them coordinate when to strike Pack hunting spiders exist in places other than your nightmares. While most spiders enjoy solitary lives, 20 of the roughly 50,000 known spider species live in colonies. One species, Anelosimus eximius, lives in extremely large colonies of up to 1,000 individual spidersContinue Reading
The most notorious pirates stole ships, gold and other treasures. History is filled with notorious pirates that terrorized the seven seas. The exploits of these ship plunderers remain famous to this day, but they were very different from the friendly pirates seen in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie franchiseContinue Reading