A new study has found that Antarctica is even colder than thought. New satellite data shows that some valleys on the icy continent can reach minus 148 degrees F or minus 100 degrees C. The past known temperature record for the coldest place on Earth was minus 135 degrees F (93 degrees C). Researchers said […]

A mysterious dinosaur skeleton was sold in a Paris auction house for more than $2,000,000. The skeleton belongs to a species that has not been yet identified. The unidentified bidder could now give a name to a new dinosaur species. Paleontologists believe the fossil is 150 million years old and belongs to a 9-foot-high 30-foot-long […]

A Tesla car owner from Saint-Gilles, Brussels claims that the Autopilot feature of his Model S started itself and rammed the vehicle into five cars parked nearby. The man claims that the car did that all by itself without any input from the driver. French media dubbed Tuesday’s incident “incroyable” which means “incredible” in the French […]

According to a new study, the Great Barrier Reef faced at least five deaths events in the past and miraculously survived. But this time researchers aren’t that sure that the reef is going to make it. The study is a response to the findings that two-thirds of the largest living thing on the planet died […]

A group of researchers was able to design a footstep-recognition system that can tell who you are based on your walking style with 100% accuracy. The system could be the next big thing when it comes to security checkpoints, after fingerprint readers and retinal scanners. It is worth noting that each person’s walking style is […]

The U.S. government wants to sell the International Space Station to private businesses by 2025, but experts believe that it isn’t going to happen. An auditor recently reported that no private company could pay the massive costs of the international space lab over the next six years. On May 16, NASA’s auditor Paul Martin expressed […]

The Trump administration has decided to shut down NASA’s multi-million-dollar carbon monitoring system (CMS) despite carbon dioxide levels recently hitting an all-time high. The space agency’s $10 million research line into carbon dioxide concentrations has kept a close watch on the planet’s emissions of greenhouse gases, and offered a solid database used by researchers worldwide. […]

According to a recent report, Twitter has sold the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users to an affiliate of the British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica which is behind Facebook’s data scandal. The micro-blogging website sold the information to Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge University scholar and Cambridge Analytica affiliate that handed over the data […]

Curators at the Buffalo Museum of Science in Buffalo, New York, announced that an what they thought to be the replica of an elephant bird’s egg is the real thing. The egg was found in the museum’s storage room. Paige Langle, who is in charge of the museum’s zoology collections, made the discovery while modernizing […]