Dunkleosteus terrelli, an armor-plated fish that lived in the shallow subtropical waters of the Devonian period, about 360 million years ago, is one of...
NASA has released a stunning photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the dwarf galaxy UGCA 307.
This Hubble image shows UGCA 307, a dwarf...
Edowa zuniensis is the first species of baenid turtle described from the Turonian age of North America.
Life reconstruction of Edowa zuniensis. Image credit:...
Light from the distant supernova-hosting galaxy was gravitationally lensed by the foreground galaxy cluster RX J2129.6+0005 (RX J2129 for short).
This...
Islands often contain distinctive ecological conditions that can lead to unusual evolutionary trajectories such as dwarf mammoths and giant rats. In new...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected gaseous water in the planet-forming disk around V883 Orionis, a...
Like batteries, supercapacitors store and release electricity. But unlike batteries, supercapacitors don’t need a chemical reaction to store energy....
3C 297 is located about 9.2 billion light-years away in the constellation of Virgo and contains a quasar, a supermassive black hole pulling in gas at the...
Researchers have produced a high-quality chromosome-level genome of the faba bean (Vicia faba), one of the earliest domesticated crops.
The faba bean (Vicia...
A team of scientists from Cambodia and France has identified a new species of giant mosquito in the genus Toxorhynchites.
Toxorhynchites domrey: (A) thorax;...
In the lower atmosphere of Earth, oxygen contains a higher fraction of the heavy isotope 18O than ocean water does. This enrichment is a signature of biological...
The role of the heart in the experience of time has been long theorized but empirical evidence is scarce. In new research, scientists from Cornell University...
Paleontologists at the Indian Institute of Technology have described a surprising new genus and species of crocodile-like reptile from fossils found in...
Metalenses promise potential for a paradigm shift of conventional optical devices. They comprise tiny, antenna-like surface patterns that can focus light...
New research led by the Swinburne University of Technology shows that the amount of warm carbon suddenly increased by a factor of five over a period of...
Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of the emission nebula IC 4701.
This OmegaCAM/VST image shows...
‘Sun rays’ are also known as crepuscular rays, from the Latin word for twilight. It was the first time sun rays have been so clearly viewed on Mars.
This...
It has been suggested for a long time that dark matter would form a density spike around a black hole. However, no promising evidence has been observed...
