The hindbrain of both sea lampreys and humans is built using an extraordinarily similar molecular and genetic toolkit, according to new research led by...
The yellow-crested helmetshrike (Prionops alberti) is listed as a ‘lost bird’ by the American Bird Conservancy because it had not seen in nearly two...
The black hole in the newly-discovered quasar SMSS J052915.80-435152.0 (hereafter called J0529-4351) accretes around one solar mass per day onto an existing...
Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) are thought to be the dominant source of interplanetary dust particles in the outer Solar System due to both collisions between...
A team of physicists in China has synthesized two new isotopes: osmium-160 and tungsten-156.
Position of the new isotopes, osmium-160 and tungsten-156,...
Saturn’s moon Titan has an organic-rich atmosphere and surface with a subsurface ocean that may represent a habitable environment. In a new study, astrobiologists...
An international team of herpetologists led by New Mexico Highlands University and University of Queensland scientists has described a cryptic new species...
Using new 21-cm radio observations made with NSF’s Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered over 250 neutral gaseous clouds being blasted out...
In a new paper published on January 31, 2024 in the journal Historical Biology, paleontologists announced the discovery of a previously undocumented species...
A team of anthropologists from the University of Wyoming, the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of New Hampshire has discovered...
Biologists from Altos Labs-Cambridge Institute of Science, the University of Cambridge and elsewhere have found that a retrovirus-derived genetic element...
Physicists using the Advanced Rare Isotope Separator (ARIS) at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) have produced, separated, and identified five...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacular image of the dwarf spiral galaxy IC 3476, which is found in the constellation...
100% orange juice and sugar-sweetened beverages are not equivalent when looking at the impact on food intake and glycemic response, and they should not...
The formation of galaxies by gradual hierarchical co-assembly of baryons and cold dark matter halos is a fundamental paradigm underpinning modern astrophysics...
The icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake have surfaces bearing methane ice of unknown origin. According to an analysis of data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James...
A new genus and species of dwarf lambeosaurine hadrosaurid has come to light in Moroccan rocks dating to the Late Cretaceous epoch, some 68 million years...
The proton is one of the main building blocks of all visible matter in the Universe. Among its intrinsic properties are its electric charge, mass and spin....
