by Shawn Radcliffe | Oct 15, 2020 | Science
One of the leading explanations for how the universe got its start is the Big Bang. In this theory, the universe began as a single point and then expanded to its current size. Although this is probably the best-known answer to the “birth of the universe” question, it...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Dec 5, 2018 | Science
To Carlo Rovelli, the Italian physicist and author, all reality is interaction, especially when you are trying to make sense of the world around you. “We do understand the world better not in terms of things, but in terms of interaction between things, and how things...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Nov 16, 2015 | Science
By any standard, insects dominate the world. They live on land, in water and in the air. They have colonized every continent, including Antarctica. And they make up three-quarters of all known animals—currently there are 1 million known insect species and an estimated...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Mar 6, 2013 | Science
A well-preserved 33,000-year-old dog skull recovered from a cave in the mountains of southern Siberia is more closely related to modern dogs than to wolves. This finding, from an international team led by a Russian researcher, backs up a study from last year that...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Mar 5, 2013 | Science
Best known for traveling across inhospitable deserts, camels may have gotten their start in a radically different environment. Fossil fragments of an extinct camel’s leg, discovered in Canada’s High Arctic by a research team led by the Canadian Museum of Nature,...