Great Pyramid of Giza’s Design Naturally Shields It from Earthquakes, Archaeologists Say
Rare Ostrich-Like Dinosaur Fossil Found on Canadian Island
CERN Physicists Observe New Exotic Particle
New Species of Octopus Discovered in Deep Waters near Galapagos Islands
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‘T. rex’ Mosasaur Ruled the Seas 80 Million Years Ago
Using spectral data from the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers analyzed the atmosphere of TOI-199b, a distant Saturn-mass world that is neither frozen nor scorching hot. An artist’s impression of a gas-giant exoplanet. Image credit: Sci.News. TOI-199 is a G-type star located around 330 light-years away in the constellation of Dorado. It...
New observations from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft reveal that the Zwan-Wolf effect — a phenomenon once thought unique to Earth’s magnetosphere, in which charged particles are squeezed like toothpaste coming out of a tube along magnetic structures called flux tubes — is also reshaping the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere. An artistic representation...
For more than four and a half millennia, the Khufu Pyramid has stood on the Giza plateau, enduring dozens of earthquakes without serious structural damage. New research led by Egypt’s National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics offers a quantitative explanation for this remarkable durability. It shows that the structure’s natural vibration frequencies differ sharply from those of...
Analyzing 1.75-billion-year-old microfossils from ancient Australian seabeds, paleontologists say ancient eukaryotes — the ancestors of every plant, animal and fungus — huddled in oxygenated seafloor patches for over a billion years before breaking free into open water. Fossil eukaryotes from Northern Territory, Australia. Image credit: Lechte et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10533-4. Eukaryotes...
A marine biologist studying the photophores of a bioluminescent fish species found needle-shaped guanine crystals that scatter and redirect light instead of merely reflecting it, a discovery that could inspire more efficient biomedical and optical devices. Sigmops gracilis. Image credit: Wu Quancheng / Fisheries Research Institute, Council of Agriculture, Taiwan. Approximately 75% of marine organisms...
A marine biologist studying the photophores of a bioluminescent fish species found needle-shaped guanine crystals that scatter and redirect light instead of merely reflecting it, a discovery that could inspire more efficient biomedical and optical devices. Sigmops gracilis. Image credit: Wu Quancheng / Fisheries Research Institute, Council of Agriculture, Taiwan. Approximately 75% of marine organisms...
In a small clinical trial, researchers at the Ohio State University found that a tomato juice rich in lycopene and soy isoflavones lowered several proteins linked to chronic inflammation, raising hopes for food-based therapies. Tomato-soy juice contains high levels of lycopene and soy isoflavones. “The idea is, can we use food-based interventions to modulate inflammation?” said Dr. Jessica Cooperstone,...
Scientists have extracted and analyzed proteins from the tooth enamel of six Homo erectus individuals who lived in China roughly 400,000 years ago, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the genetic makeup of one of humanity’s most successful and far-ranging ancestors. Their results suggest that Homo erectus may have carried genetic variants that were later passed to Denisovans and eventually...
Unusual gases rising from geothermal springs within the Kafue Rift of Zambia suggest a deep fracture in Earth’s crust could mark the early stages of a new tectonic boundary. Location map of the extensional zone within the Central African Plateau of Zambia. The Kafue Rift is connected to the Luano and Luangwa rifts to the NE, and the Western branch of the EARS at the Rukwa rift (RRB) and Rungwe...
In a small clinical trial, researchers at the Ohio State University found that a tomato juice rich in lycopene and soy isoflavones lowered several proteins linked to chronic inflammation, raising hopes for food-based therapies. Tomato-soy juice contains high levels of lycopene and soy isoflavones. “The idea is, can we use food-based interventions to modulate inflammation?” said Dr. Jessica Cooperstone,...
