Follow biological anthropologist and ‚bone collector‘ Dr. Marina Elliott deep into the ancient underground crevasses that would reveal around 1,500 bone
What Homo naledi has done is kind of forced a whole
„Long ago, dinosaurs left footprints in the mud at the edge of an ancient ocean. Today, you can walk in their tracks in the bed of the Paluxy River…“
There’s more than one kind, and there’s a lot of them
Dr. Joe Hanson from It’s Okay to Be Smart explores Earth’s biomass and which life form really dominates Earth in this statistic-filled video.
National Academy of Sciences: What you’ll see… is a kind
The Voyager Golden Records. Each of these 30 cm (12-inch) phonograph records were launched into space in 1977 during the Voyager program. On them: The
uranium source into its daughter isotopes makes it a kind
Imagine there’s an invisible force field around our planet. Now imagine that for billions of years, that force field has been protecting us from a beam of
You might think this is some kind of science fiction
Catapults, teeter-totters, ramps, and levers can make saving coins a fun activity. This vintage collection of coin banks provides six inventive examples
There is a kind of fluttering action, and the size
Glasswing butterflies aren’t made of glass, but their transparent wings help them blend with their surroundings, protecting them from predators. This Deep
interesting if the dual nature serves to avoid a certain kind
Inspired by medieval chain mail, this 3D printed smart fabric can be both soft and foldable or rigid and load-bearing. Its interlinked components—“from
The precise properties of this kind of material could
The octopus is a very smart animal. It can find its way through mazes, play, and problem-solve. Does the octopus also dream? In this clip from Nature’s
What kind of a connection is possible with an animal
Follow a formidable trail of leafcutter ants through the Amazon Rainforest. They’re carrying lots of small leaf pieces, having gathered them from high up
So they’ll kind of balance amongst all the trees, which
