Disgraced “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli claims he and Barron Trump — Donald Trump’s 18-year-old son — are behind a mysterious Trump-branded cryptocurrency that has soared in value this week. Shkreli, who was convicted of securities fraud in 2017 after jacking up the price of a life-saving drug, said he was first approached by an acquaintance … Read more
About 4.5 billion years ago, many scientists say, Earth had an encounter with Theia, another Mars-sized planetary object. When the two worlds collided in a big impact, the mind goes, the debris was shot into space, locked in the orbit of the young Earth, damaged it, and led to the formation of our moon. But … Read more
Paleontologists in South Africa say they have found the world’s oldest known burial site, containing the remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behavior. Led by renowned paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, researchers said in 2023 that they had discovered several specimens of Homo naledi – a tree-climbing Stone Age hominid … Read more
For the first time, a phenomenon that astronomers have long hoped to image directly has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Telescope Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam). In this stunning image of the Serpens Nebula, the discovery lies in the northern region (seen in the upper left) of this young region, close to star formation. Astronomers … Read more