Jan 4, 2022 by News Staff

Researchers from the University of Adelaide and elsewhere have sequenced and analyzed mitochondrial DNA from fossils of cave lions (Panthera spp.) and...

Jan 4, 2022 by News Staff

Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar have detected five longhouses in Østfold county, Norway. One of the ancient buildings is approximately 60...

Jan 4, 2022 by News Staff

One of the most poorly understood stellar evolutionary paths is that of binary stellar systems undergoing common-envelope evolution, when the enormous...

Jan 4, 2022 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from the United States, China, Singapore, France and Canada has decoded the genome of the lychee (Litchi chinensis),...

Jan 4, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered a unique object of uncertain nature — possibly a disintegrating...

Jan 3, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered the footprints of large sauropodomorph dinosaurs on the shoreline near Penarth in south Wales, the United Kingdom. An individual...

Jan 3, 2022 by News Staff

Archaeologists excavating the medieval town of Oslo in Norway have unearthed a finely carved figurine of a king or a queen with a falcon perched on his/her...

Jan 3, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Scientists have described a huge new species of the genus Begonia from southern Tibet, China. Habitat and large-sized plant of Begonia giganticaulis: (A)...

Jan 3, 2022 by News Staff

Ultra-low velocity zones sit beneath the central Pacific and Africa, atop the outer core of Earth. In these areas, seismic waves slow by as much as half,...

Jan 3, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

While it looks like a spiral galaxy called NGC 105 is plunging edge-on into a collision with a neighboring spiral galaxy, this is just the result of the...