Massive skull of prehistoric sea monster that was the 'ultimate killing machine' discovered in UK

Tech Insider
Jurassic Coast, Dorset | Stock illustration of a Pliosaur
Jurassic Coast, Dorset | Stock illustration of a Pliosaur

Getty Images

How a California farmer is helping build a Black-led sustainable agriculture revolution

Tech Insider
A photo of Dennis Hutson (right) with his brother-in-law Kayode Kadara (left).
Dennis Hutson (right) co-bought the land for TAC farm with his sister and brother-in-law Kayode Kadara (left).

Jo Ann Baumgartner

Japanese elders are being left behind to face bear attacks

Tech Insider
A brown bear holds a fish in its mouth while standing on a cliff of rocks and a baby bear crouches next to him
An Ussuri brown bear and a cub eat salmon after catching it from the beach of Sea of Okhotsk near the town of Rausu on Saturday, September 28, 2019, in Hokkaido, Japan.

Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Meet the 27-year-old 'water buffalo' negotiating California's claim to the evaporating Colorado River

Tech Insider : Environment

A photo of John Brooks Hamby walking with other people.
John Brooks Hamby is in charge of California's negotiations to the Colorado River.

Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun

A mysterious star from outside the Milky Way has somehow ended up near our galaxy's supermassive black hole

Tech Insider
A picture shows a star near the region where the Sagittarius A* black hole should be. The picture looks like yellow blobs on a dark background, two circles highlight the location of the star and the black hole.
A star called S0-6 (circled in blue), was found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*, circled in green) at the center of the Milky Way.

Miyagi University of Education/ NAOJ

Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch the US military's ultra-secretive X-37B spaceplane in its longest-ever flight

Tech Insider
small white and black space plane on a runway
The X-37B spaceplane.

Staff Sgt. Adam Shanks/US Space Force

NASA found a stray, space-grown tomato that went missing for 8 months, clearing the astronaut they all thought ate it

Tech Insider
image of astronaut with tomatoes on space station
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio with tomatoes growing on the International Space Station.

Koichi Wakata/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

National Geographic unveiled its Pictures of the Year. Here are 7 of the most stunning wildlife photos.

Tech Insider
Field specialists examine a North Island brown kiwi.
Field specialists examine a North Island brown kiwi.

Robin Hammond/National Geographic

What's the most sustainable type of Christmas tree? Depends on what you want, a forestry expert says

Tech Insider
A photo of a real Christmas tree outdoors next to a fake Christmas tree indoors.
It can take hundreds of years for an artificial tree to decompose once you throw it out.

[left] Jim Craigmyle; [right] Picture alliance/Getty Images

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the sky, will almost disappear next week. Here's how to see it.

Tech Insider
A picture of Betelgeuse taken by the Hubble telescope shows up as a blob of orange matter on a black background
A picture of Betelgeuse taken by the Hubble telescope.

Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Ronald Gilliland (STScI),NASA and ESA

Subscribe to Science