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How Scientists Learned a 550-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature Was Right-Handed
12+ hour, 3+ min ago (447+ words) VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. The science of handedness is going through a bit of a renaissance right now. Just in the past few months, researchers have uncovered more about why roughly 90 percent of humans…...
Scientists Discover Mysterious New Boiling Pool at Yellowstone After Hydrothermal Blast
3+ week, 10+ hour ago (374+ words) A sudden hydrothermal event created the new pool, giving scientists rare data on Yellowstone’s explosive geology. Sometime between June 14 and June 16, a boiling, gray pool opened up in the ground at Yellowstone‘s Biscuit Basin. Scientists can’t say exactly when…...
Antarctica Just Experienced a Winter Heatwave Unlike Anything Scientists Have Seen Before
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (257+ words) To clarify, it’s currently the middle of winter in Antarctica. Not to be alarmist or anything, but things are heating up in Antarctica, and I don’t mean things are getting exciting. They’re getting literally quite hot. Way too hot for…...
Southern California Faults Hit a 1,000-Year Stress Peak. Is a Megaquake Next?
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (321+ words) Californians have been worried about “the Big One” for decades. That one massive, apocalyptic earthquake that will rip the state to shreds. While those fears have not yet borne out, new research suggests that stress levels on major faults beneath…...
Scientists Discovered a Continent-Sized Megastructure Hiding Deep Beneath Antarctica
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (370+ words) vice.com Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. Buried way underneath Antarctica’s ice, researchers have found an enormous, continent-sized network of basins we never knew were there until now. According to a recent study published in Nature…...
Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Strange Earthquakes Have Been Hitting Utah for Decades
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (455+ words) VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. For about half a century now, Utah has been getting hit with a series of earthquakes deep below its surface. Seismologists studying the phenomenon couldn’t explain them. No one thought…...
A Massive Volcano Erupted, Then Something Strange Happened in the Sky
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (244+ words) It turns out that what happened in its aftermath is almost more impressive than the wildly impressive explosion itself. It would be pretty amazing if, say, an oil spill cleaned itself up or if a car somehow removed carbon dioxide…...
A New Yellowstone Supervolcano Study Just Dropped. Should We Be Worried?
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (199+ words) The last supereruption occurred some 630,000 years ago. New research published in Science, compiled by a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters, suggests Yellowstone’s heat may come from much shallower depth than previously thought, and is largely…...
The World’s Largest Acidic Geyser Just Woke Up in Yellowstone National Park
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (439+ words) The geysers at Yellowstone National Park are still very much alive, and one of them just reminded us of that. The geysers at Yellowstone National Park are still very much alive, and one of them just reminded us. The Echinus…...
These 500,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Discovered
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (377+ words) Other types of humans were roaming around Europe long before Homo sapiens ever called it home. They improvised tools from whatever the landscape offered, and they did so way, way before scientists previously thought. Two new studies suggest that early…...