4+ hour, 53+ min ago  (344+ words) Something has washed up on the shore of an Indonesian island. It's huge, it's floating -- and it's rotting. A large 15m (49.2 ft) long sea creature was discovered off Hulung Beach, on Seram Island, Indonesia. The creature was discovered by 37-year-old local…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago  (442+ words) One of the primary missions for NASA's Mars rover, Perseverance, is looking for evidence of past life. Some of that evidence is hidden away deep inside of Martian rocks. That's what led Perseverance to drill into one particular briefcase-sized rock…...

2+ hour, 46+ min ago  (160+ words) The deep sea enchants. Every deep sea expedition returns with footage of new, rare, and/or alien-like creatures. One of the latest such journeys, undertaken by marine researchers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s 272-foot research vessel Falkor, just brought back…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago  (369+ words) In 2009, Stephen Hawking ran an experiment that required champagne, balloons, and hors d'oeuvres, to demonstrate that backward time travel probably isn't possible. It was a time travelers' party -- but no one showed. And that was the point. "I have experimental…...

2+ hour, 46+ min ago  (306+ words) Some 5,000 light-years from Earth, there's a picturesque, dying star that's shedding its mighty gaseous layers. Until recently, NASA referred to this deep space object, known as a planetary nebula, as the "Eskimo Nebula." "As the scientific community works to identify…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago  (541+ words) Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. Top U.S. earth scientists announced Thursday that 2021 was among the hottest years on record. And the decades-long trend is unambiguous. Temperatures have been on an…...

2+ hour, 46+ min ago  (315+ words) Seeing a saber-toothed tiger on your TV screen is all very well and good, but what about sitting next to one on the couch? A new David Attenborough-fronted app, Museum Alive, aims to let you do exactly that, using AR…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago  (549+ words) I first heard it hit the bedroom windows at 6:05 a.m. on Tuesday morning. It was unmistakable, yet I couldn't, or rather, refused to believe it. The metallic tapping of sleet hitting the windows was clear and growing louder with each wind…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago  (625+ words) Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. Yes, the sun is a profoundly important factor in Earth's climate. It always will be. But scientists, like those at NASA, know the sun isn't…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago  (648+ words) Don’t let the name fool you. Whale sharks are not whales. They are sharks. And they're the largest fish species on the planet. They can grow as long as a city bus. What's more, scientists recently concluded that whale sharks…...