Paleontologists from Flinders University have examined the brains of four species of extinct giant mihirungs (dromornithid birds): Ilbandornis woodburnei...
Congruus kitcheneri, an extinct species of kangaroo that lived in Australia between 2.6 million and 12,000 years ago, was adapted for climbing trees,...
Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes (ALMA, APEX, the IRAM 30-m telescope,...
A research team led by University College London archaeologists has discovered a 5,000-year-old dismantled stone circle in west Wales, close to Stonehenge’s...
A team of zoologists from Germany and Czech Republic has discovered a new species of chameleon living on the slopes of the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia.
Living...
Obtained using the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, the new image of Messier 106 shows not only the galaxy’s spiral...
Physicists from the LHCb Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have observed four new exotic particles: Zcs(4000)+, Zcs(4220)+, X(4685),...
The hominin fossil record of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) indicates that at least two super-archaic species, Homo luzonensis and Homo floresiensis, were...
The ancient Maya made salt by boiling brine in pots over fires in salt kitchens, according to a paper by Louisiana State University’s Professor Heather...
Researchers have found a new species of parasitic flowering plant in the forests of Pulau Tioman, an island in Malaysia.
A fully bloomed Rafflesia tiomanensis....
Ghrelin, a stomach-derived hormone known to regulate appetite and other food-related functions, may play a broad role in reward-related behavior and decision-making,...
The Standard Model of particle physics currently provides our best description of fundamental particles and their interactions. The new results from CERN’s...
In a paper published in the journal iScience, a team of marine biologists from Japan, the United States and France reports the discovery of circling behavior...
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and several ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered and confirmed a...
Using data from the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have identified emission from two isomers of a small polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon...
Physicists from the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) Collaboration at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider in China have detected the first candidate for...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shot this image of the face-on barred spiral galaxy Arp 28.
This Hubble image shows Arp 28, a bright barred spiral...
A new species of shark with hypertrophied, slender pectoral fins has been identified from the fossilized remains discovered in northern Mexico.
Life reconstruction...
