Mar 31, 2021 by News Staff

A 54-km- (33.5-mile) diameter Noachian-aged crater with neither inlet nor outlet channels is distinct from previously documented crater basin lakes on...

Mar 31, 2021 by News Staff

A new genus and species of furileusaurian (stiff-backed lizard) abelisaurid dinosaur being named Llukalkan aliocranianus has been discovered by a team...

Mar 31, 2021 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Pennsylvania State University and elsewhere has developed a stretchable antenna and rectenna system that harvests energy...

Mar 31, 2021 by News Staff

Two teams of astronomers have performed polarimetric observations of 2I/Borisov, the first active extrasolar comet ever detected in our Solar System, using...

Mar 31, 2021 by News Staff

In a new study led by scientists from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, aerobic exercise training reduced central arterial stiffness...

Mar 30, 2021 by News Staff

Planetary scientists using data from the Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft have discovered expanding emission circles of ultraviolet...

Mar 30, 2021 by Natali Anderson

The two subspecies of the South Asian river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) — the Indus river dolphin (Platanista gangetica minor) and the Ganges...

Mar 30, 2021 by News Staff

A gravitationally lensed gamma-ray burst, designated GRB 950830, helped astronomers detect a black hole about 55,000 times more massive than the Sun. An...

Mar 30, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Arachnologists have discovered a new species of peacock spider (genus Maratus) in the vicinities of Mount McIntyre and Nangwarry in Australia. Maratus...

Mar 30, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have produced a spectacularly detailed image of a bubble of hot hydrogen gas called Sharpless 2-305...

Mar 29, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the HARPS-N spectrograph at the 3.6-m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, astronomers...

Mar 29, 2021 by News Staff

Odontoblasts, cells that form dentin, the shell beneath the tooth’s enamel that encases the soft dental pulp containing nerves and blood vessels, contain...

Mar 29, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Neanderthals, our evolutionary cousins, used toothpicks nearly 46,000 years ago, a new study of their teeth has revealed. A reconstruction of a Neanderthal...

Mar 29, 2021 by News Staff

Ornithologists from the United States, Brazil and Finland have described two new species of the owl genus Megascops from the Amazon and Atlantic forests. The...

Mar 29, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A small portion of the Veil Nebula, which is part of a supernova remnant called the Cygnus Loop, was featured in previous Hubble photos, but now new processing...

Mar 26, 2021 by News Staff

Biologists have analyzed T cells from the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) and uncovered a previously unknown lineage, called γµ T cells,...

Mar 26, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists have examined the remains of houses in Uxbenká and Ix Kuku’il, two medium size, peripheral Classic Maya (250-900 CE) polities located...

Mar 26, 2021 by News Staff

In a new study, published this week in the journal iScience, a team of researchers showed that Brazil reef octopuses (Octopus insularis) have two different...

Mar 26, 2021 by News Staff

A novel theory proposed by planetary scientists from Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory challenges the current thinking that the saltwater...

Mar 26, 2021 by News Staff

The silverleaf whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) incorporated a gene called BtPMaT1 from plants into its genome roughly 35 million years ago and now uses it to...