Category: Science

New archaeological evidence has allowed scientists to refine the timeline for the Viking presence in North America.Pieces of wood scarred with cut marks have been precisely dated to the year 1021 CE – exactly 1,000 years ago –...

With over a hundred thousand people waiting for an organ transplant in the US alone, scientists are racing to find options besides human donors. Now for the first time, a pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) sparked worldwide excitement in March as particle physicists reported tantalizing evidence for new physics – potentially a new force of nature.  Now, our new result, yet to be peer reviewed, from...

We know that true polar wander (TPW) can occasionally tilt whole planets and moons relative to their axes, but it’s not entirely clear just how often this has happened to Earth.  Now a new study presents evidence of one...