Category: Shorts

Bonehead Bone Wars: Sciences Most Ridiculous Rivalry #shorts #scinews #science news #science #science max #dinosaurs #fossils #paleontology #rivalry #ego #vanity #discovery #bones #history #science In the late 1800s, paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh engaged in a bitter rivalry to discover and name dinosaur fossils in the American West. Their feud led to…

Asteroids Unusually High Density Hints At Exotic New Elements Beyond The Periodic Table #shorts #scinews #science news #science #science max #asteroid #density #elements #periodic table #superheavy #unobtainium #exotic #space #mining #physics A new study finds that asteroid 33 Polyhymnia is so dense it likely contains superheavy elements beyond the periodic table. Physicists say these exotic…

Space Probe Breaks Speed Record #shorts #scinews #science news #science #science max #space #NASA #Parker #probe #solar #sun #Venus #fastest #orbit #flyby Folks, NASA’s Parker probe just became the fastest human-made object ever, clocking nearly 400,000 miles per hour during its closest flyby of the sun last month. Like my driving on the Jersey Turnpike,…

Bigfoot Caught Chillin On Camera In Colorado Mountains #shorts #scinews #science news #science #science max #bigfoot #sasquatch #cryptid #colorado #train #video #footage #hairy #ape #mountain This just in: new video allegedly shows America’s favorite cryptid, Bigfoot, just chillin’ and relaxing while on a stroll in the Colorado mountains. A couple claims they filmed the footage…

NASAs Journey To Metal-Rich Space Nugget Blasts Off Today Despite Bad Weather Delay #shorts #scinews #science news #science #science max #NASA #Psyche mission #asteroid #spacecraft #launch #Falcon Heavy #livestream #science #exploration #discovery What’s happening in space, folks? NASA is finally launching its mission to the metal-loaded asteroid Psyche today after bad weather postponed the blastoff…

Whats The Only Five-Limbed Land Critter? #shorts #scinews #science news #science #science max #kangaroo #tail #walking #animal #vertebrate #earth #australia #creature #study #science Aussie researchers say roos use their tails as a fifth limb when walking. Turns out the tails have the same oomph as their four other limbs combined. So the red kangaroo is…

Feeling the Love in Body and Mind #shorts #scinews #science news #science #science max #love #emotion #relationships #science #biology #neuroscience #psychology #map #head #heart Folks, Finnish scientists mapped where people feel 27 kinds of love in the body. Romantic loves lit up the whole body while wisdom love was just in the head. So next…

Methane Madness! Huge Gas Leak Found Underwater #shorts #scinews #science news #science #science max #methane #leak #Baltic Sea #bubbles #climate #greenhouse gas #ocean #sediment #oxygen Scientists discovered a massive methane gas leak deep underwater in the Baltic Sea. We’re talking bubbles the size of basketballs rising up from the seafloor – wild stuff. Methane is…

Astronomers Want You To Stop Calling Those Cloudy Things Magellanic #shorts #scinews #science news #science #science max #astronomy #Magellanic Clouds #galaxies #exploration #colonialism #indigenous #naming #equity Good evening, I’m Gregory. In astronomy news, astronomers are saying it’s time we rename the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds – those two fuzzy patches in the night sky.…

Ancient Rock Turns Out To Be The Worlds Worst Telescope #shorts #scinews #science news #science #science max #Nimrud lens #Iraq #ancient #Assyrian #astronomy #telescope #magnifying glass #furniture Archaeologists unearthed a piece of rock crystal in Iraq used by ancient Assyrians. Some thought it was part of an ancient telescope. But a new look says it…