Author Archives: Matt Hrodey

The inostrancevia dominated the Permian Period until climate change wiped out the apex predator 250 million years ago. Continue reading →

Scientists found a switch that flips feathers on and off, narrowing the genetic distance between birds and the ancient reptiles. Continue reading →

The Hvar culture spread throughout the Adriatic coast 7,000 years ago. Newly discovered underwater settlements reveal the ancient relics they left behind. Continue reading →

The big, red galactic troublemaker has kept humanity guessing for thousands of years. Physicists predict when Betelgeuse will explode. Continue reading →

Despite containing the longest-known land predator, Spinosaurus, this family suffers from a sparse fossil record. Continue reading →

Strokes tend to come on quickly and need immediate medical treatment. Here’s how to spot the signs of a stroke as it’s happening, and what to do if you are experiencing symptoms. Continue reading →

The people who lived between the Tigris and Euphrates locked lips and then wrote about it on clay tablets. Continue reading →

The dramatic digital recreation of the Titanic wreck footage arrives right on time, revealing the severe threat from metal-eating bacteria. Continue reading →

Humans carved into boulders precise, to-scale representations of the large “desert kites” they built in the Middle East. Continue reading →

A new study furthers the mystery of where the Saturn’s sparkling ice rings came from. Continue reading →

NASA’s manned mission to fly around the moon will one day flood the internet with crystal clear footage of its surface from space lasers. Continue reading →

Take a celestial journey into the mysteries of the ice giant, Uranus. Explore its exotic atmosphere and icy landscapes. Continue reading →

A researcher pieced together evidence from several observatories and concluded that a planet up to ten times the mass of Jupiter had been obliterated. Continue reading →

The method used could greatly increase archaeologists’ ability to recover ancient DNA from objects without damaging them. Continue reading →

A muography scan led researchers in Italy to an isolated room that may be a long-lost burial chamber. Continue reading →

A new genetic analysis found that Neanderthal noses survived natural selection by proving useful in Ice Age Europe. Continue reading →

Ancient teeth preserved bacterial DNA fragments for millennia, and they could become a source of new antibiotics. Continue reading →

Ancient teeth preserved bacterial DNA fragments for millennia, and they could become a source of new antibiotics. Continue reading →

On May the Fourth, we celebrate Star Wars Day as we sort through the on-again, off-again relationship between the IP and such fields as physics and geology in Star Wars. Continue reading →

On May the Fourth, we celebrate Star Wars Day as we sort through the on-again, off-again relationship between the IP and such fields as physics and geology in Star Wars. Continue reading →

A new study that ground down mammoths tusks concludes that the megafauna had massive surges of testosterone every year, and thus, musth. Continue reading →

A new study that ground down mammoths tusks concludes that the megafauna had massive surges of testosterone every year, and thus, musth. Continue reading →

Amid record-setting California wildfires, the dry forest burned, destroying hundreds of years of growth. Can a few thousand new plantings make up for what was lost? Continue reading →

Some cave dwellers seek isolation to connect with nature or to escape civilization. Learn how Beatrice Flamini’s record-breaking stint as a cave-dweller helped her find her inner resolve. Continue reading →

With few other food resources to turn to, early residents of the harsh Tibetan Plateau consumed the milk of their animals. Continue reading →

Over time, catches become smaller as fish DNA changes. The answer may be to stop going for the big ones. Continue reading →

The elusive, long-sought-after Tasmanian tiger has most likely vanished from the earth. But could it still live on a remote part of an island? Continue reading →

Confusion over Use By, Best By and Sell By dates lands a lot of perfectly good groceries in the trash. Continue reading →

Bronze Age ancestors used what they had at hand for shamanic purposes, and according to a new hair analysis, that meant powerful anticholinergic substances. Continue reading →

The study concludes that the two stone age children, found buried in Lebanon, were Homo sapiens and not Neanderthals. Continue reading →