A fossil site in North Dakota appears to have captured the day the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth, right down to tiny glass beads from the impact lodged in the gills of fish that died within hours

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The site is called Tanis, in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota. In 2019, a team led by Robert DePalma described it as a rare snapshot of the first minutes to hours after the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The most arresting detail was not a dinosaur skeleton. It was fish. […]

A slice of the static on an old untuned television was the afterglow of the Big Bang, which means millions of people spent decades staring at the oldest light in the universe without knowing it.

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The claim is true, though the version of it that gets repeated most often is softer than it sounds. When an analog television was tuned to a channel with nothing broadcasting on it, the snow on the screen and the hiss from the speaker were built from several sources of noise at once. One of […]