Ancient Roman concretes have survived millennia, but mechanistic insights into their durability is an enigma. To solve the mystery, researchers from MIT...
The jet observed by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is ejecting material away from MWC 349A at a blistering 500 km per second (311...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of long-tailed pachypleurosaur from a complete skeleton found in China.
An artist’s impression...
In new research, paleontologists analyzed abundances of sunscreen-like chemicals in 800 fossil pollen grains from 250-million-year-old rocks in Tibet.
The...
According to a paper by Washington State University anthropologist Rachel Horowitz, the ruling Maya elite in the K’iche’ region of what is now Guatemala...
A stunning new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two nearby galaxies, LEDA 48062 and UGC 8603, located in the constellation of Canes...
Humans, whales, elephants, and naked mole-rats all share a somewhat rare trait for mammals: their bodies are covered with little to no hair. The common...
In at least 400 European caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, Upper Paleolithic humans drew, painted and engraved non-figurative signs from at...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have spotted early galaxies with stellar bars — elongated features of stars stretching...
Intracluster light is diffuse light from stars that are gravitationally bound not to individual member galaxies, but to the halo of galaxy clusters. In...
Scientists have sequenced the chromosome-level genomes of the great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) and the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) sharks. Their...
Astronomers using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at Paranal Observatory have captured an amazing new photo of Sh2-54,...
The novel method, developed by nuclear physicists at the STAR detector of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), relies on particles of light that...
Cratonavis zhui, a new species of pygostylian bird from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of China, had a unique combination of a dinosaurian skull with...
Solid- or liquid-state cooling strategies often rely on caloric effects in which materials are taken through some sort of phase change. Researchers from...
A new genus and species of fossil lizard has been described from two fossilized specimens found in eastern Inner Mongolia, China.
Close-up of the holotype...
In the study, five epilepsy surgery patients were presented with images of famous speakers (U.S. presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton)...
The newly-discovered frog species belong to the subgenus Brygoomantis within the mantellid frog genus Mantidactylus.
The newly-discovered frog species...
Fluid intelligence is arguably the defining feature of human cognition. It predicts educational and professional success, social mobility, health, and...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken two amazing images of NGC 1850, a young globular cluster located in the Large Magellanic...
