Palm cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus) not only play the drums, they craft the sticks too, according to new research from scientists in Australia.
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University of Kansas Professor David Frayer and co-authors have discovered multiple toothpick grooves on teeth of a Neanderthal individual who lived 130,000...
A team of researchers at the University of Florida has found genes known to form heart cells in humans and other animals in the gut of the starlet sea...
In a paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (arXiv.org preprint), German physicists investigate the effects due to Universe’s...
Three carved skull fragments uncovered at Göbekli Tepe, a Neolithic site in southeast Turkey known for its impressive megalithic architecture with characteristic...
According to a team of researchers from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, a variety of organ systems, including liver and spleen, are involved...
Astronomers using NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have found new evidence suggesting that a jet of fast-moving material ejected from an intermediate-mass...
A new species of parrot has been discovered in the tropical forests of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
Male (right) and female paratypes of the blue-winged...
Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe the nearby supergiant star Betelgeuse. Beyond just delivering...
Several human studies on consumption of mango (Mangifera indica) have found multiple health benefits associated with the fruit including improved blood...
By focusing laser light to brightness one billion times greater than the surface of the Sun, a team of physicists from the United States and China has...
A Stockholm University-led team of physicists has discovered two low-temperature phases of liquid water with large differences in structure and density.
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A previously unknown mass extinction may have killed up to a third of large marine animals 2-3 million years ago, according to an international team of...
A new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics suggests that the magnetosphere of the ice giant Uranus gets flipped on and...
A team of archaeologists from Belgium, the United States and Egypt has uncovered some previously unknown rock inscriptions, which include 5,200-year-old...
NASA has released a beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of 2XMM J143450.5+033843, a galaxy that lurks within the Virgo constellation...
A new study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers has found that frequent fish consumption is associated with lower...
A team of solar physicists from the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, University of Oslo and Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory...
