Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News for Students When a sparrow-sized bird died about 110 million years ago, she had an egg inside her body. Over time, pressure crushed and flattened that egg. Now scientists report it’s the first unlaid bird egg found inside a fossil. Scientists

Author: Jonathan Lambert / Source: WIRED Every time you swallow a mouthful of seawater while swimming at the beach, you’re downing about as many viruses as there are people in North America. However, despite the staggering abundance of marine viruses—and the key role that these infectious agents

Source: Neatorama The fabella bone found in our primate ancestors was once rare in humans and scientists believed that we might have lost this primordial knee bone during evolution. However, a recent study from Imperial College of London found an increasing occurrence – this bone is now three

Author: Sinéad Baker / Source: INSIDER A new study led by a Nobel Prize winner found that the universe is younger and expanding faster than scientists thought. Astronomer Adam Riess used measurements from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to conclude that the universe is expanding 9% faster than

Author: Emily Dreyfuss / Source: WIRED Scientists fail every day. Failure is an essential and inescapable part of scientific research. It’s baked right into the scientific method: observe, measure, hypothesize, and then test. Of course, that hypothesis is often wrong. When it is, scientists go