Tiny fossils found in 1.7 billion-year-old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life.
The creationist Ken Ham’s website, Answers in Genesis (AiG), is notorious for the way it exploits the ignorance of its target readership and their eagerness for spurious “scientific” validation of evidence-free superstition. For example, AiG recently posted on X, formerly Twitter, asserting that the…
Starting in 1965, Nek Chand Saini, a road inspector in Chandigarh’s public works department, built a secret garden pieced together with discarded material from the villages that preceded the city.
This is the first time NASA has encountered a situation like this, and it took nearly a week to resolve.
Low tide was conveniently at 1pm for some midday tidepooling. We’d been planning to walk to another beach farther away, but realized that the beach across from our hotel looked like it would have plenty of tidepools. Just as we got down to the beach, there was enough breeze and a bit of a drizzle […]
Quietly resting on their rocky pedestal in the old streets of Füssen, the two rocks appear to be utterly inconspicuous, yet their diminutive sign reveals an incredible history. Way back, in the days of the Würm Ice Age, around seventy thousand to ten thousand years ago, chunks of ice from other worlds merged in the south of Germany.
One glacier came from the Lechtal Alps, bearing its load of…
Long before Collado Villalba had a town hall, it had a rock. Known as the Piedra del Concejo, this massive granite outcrop once served as the beating heart of local decision-making, where neighbors gathered in the open air to debate land disputes, local laws, and communal concerns in a form of direct democracy that predates modern institutions.
In 1724, the town’s mayor, known as Señor Sanz,…