The San Juan Daily Star
How many continents are there? You may not like the answers.
By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are seven in all. And if you get the gist, we’re going to make a list, From...
top of page
Search
The San Juan Daily Star
2 days ago3 min read
Brazilian fossil hints at older origin for all dinosaurs
By Asher Elbein A dog-size reptile slipped through fern-choked forests 237 million years ago in what is today Paraíso do Sul, Brazil. The...
6 views
The San Juan Daily Star
Nov 134 min read
Behind a wall of trees, archaeologists discover a Maya city
By Alan Yuhas East of the town of Dos Lagunas, past the major highway cutting through Mexico’s south, the forest rises up in a dense wall...
22 views
The San Juan Daily Star
Nov 54 min read
These tiny worms account for at least 4 Nobel Prizes
By Teddy Rosenbluth When scientists win the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, they typically thank family and colleagues, maybe...
17 views
The San Juan Daily Star
Oct 304 min read
Grand rooms found in Peru show an ancient culture and a powerful woman
By Alan Yuhas Archaeologists in Peru have excavated a monumental chamber featuring elaborate murals of snakes, and a pillared hall with a...
12 views
The San Juan Daily Star
Oct 144 min read
Nobel physics prize awarded for pioneering AI research by 2 scientists
By Derrick Bryson Taylor John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries that...
114 views
The San Juan Daily Star
Oct 115 min read
Scientists seeking life on Mars heard a signal that hinted at the future
By Becky Ferreira At sunset on a late summer weekend in 1924, crowds flocked to curbside telescopes to behold the advanced alien...
45 views
The San Juan Daily Star
Sep 305 min read
Who’s the dodo now? A famously extinct bird, reconsidered.
By Franz Lidz The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an...
15 views
bottom of page