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  1. Physics

    Muon Manna? Particle shower may spotlight loose nukes

    Radiation from space may help border guards spot loose nukes stowed in shipping containers.

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  2. 19307

    Tyrannosaurus rex ‘s environment may have provided sufficient carrion for the giant to survive as a scavenger, and studies of its ratio of leg-muscle mass to body mass suggest that it wasn’t speedy enough to be an efficient predator. But this may be only how it ended its life. It didn’t hatch from the egg […]

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  3. Paleontology

    Was T. rex just a big freeloader?

    A new study suggests that an ecosystem like today’s African savanna could provide sufficient carrion to nourish a scavenger the size of a Tyrannosaurus rex.