New research supports an influential ecological hypothesis on social behavior first proposed 58 years ago.
Village weavers (Ploceus cucullatus) and their...
The conventional theory about the origin of the state is that the adoption of farming increased land productivity, which led to the production of food...
Physicists from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) Collaboration have determined the mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary...
Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the Subaru Telescope, the Keck Telescope, the Gemini South and North...
New research confirms the existence of intraspecific fighting in Triceratops horridus, a species of horned dinosaur that lived in North America some 69...
NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 91.
This Hubble image shows Messier...
LADUMA J033046.20-275518.1 is the most distant megamaser of its kind ever detected.
The three-color optical image of the host galaxy of the LADUMA J033046.20-275518.1...
An ancient impact that formed the South Pole-Aitken basin, a vast impact structure on the far side of the Moon, would have created a massive plume of heat...
The newly-discovered galaxy, named HD1, existed when the Universe was just 330 million years old.
HD1 (red object). Image credit: Harikane et al., arXiv:...
It’s raining vaporized rock on WASP-178b, and KELT-20b has its upper atmosphere getting hotter rather than cooler because it is being sunburned by intense...
Biological structures frequently exhibit modularity and symmetry, but the origin of such trends is not well understood. It can be tempting to assume —...
Using seismic data from NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander, planetary researchers...
An analysis of a photographic dataset for more than 4,500 species of passerine birds shows that male and female birds of tropical passerine species are...
Our Milky Way Galaxy hosts an inner ring-like structure that is rich in metals (elements heavier than hydrogen and helium) and intermediately aged, according...
New research suggests that ancient humans played a role in selecting dogs with sweetest faces.
Burrows & Omstead show that the domestication process...
Using the Subaru Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found evidence for a Jupiter-like protoplanet around the young star...
Humans share sensory systems with a common anatomical blueprint, but individual sensory experience nevertheless varies. In olfaction, it is not known to...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a distinct secretory cell lineage deep within human...
Machu Picchu, one of the most recognized archaeological sites in the world, is located high (2,430 m above sea level) above the Urubamba River on a narrow...
The atmosphere of Jupiter is enriched with heavy elements by a factor of about 3 compared to a protosolar composition. The origin of this enrichment and...
