Apr 8, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Toothed whales have developed specialized echolocation abilities that are crucial for their underwater activities. Acoustic fat bodies — the melon...

Apr 8, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope (Murriyang) have detected unusual radio signals from XTE J1810-197, a radio magnetar (ultra-magnetic...

Apr 8, 2024 by News Staff

The Forward Search Experiment (FASER) at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to search for extremely weakly interacting particles. Such particles...

Apr 8, 2024 by News Staff

Wooden tools rarely survive in the Paleolithic record limiting our understanding of Pleistocene hunter-gather lifeways. With 187 wooden artifacts, the...

Apr 8, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at Paranal Observatory in Chile, astronomers have produced this beautiful image of the little-known nebula Gum...

Apr 8, 2024 by News Staff

Dinosaurs debuted on Earth’s stage in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event, and survived two other Triassic extinction intervals...

Apr 8, 2024 by News Staff

To study dark energy’s effects over the past 11 billion years, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has created the largest 3D map of our...

Apr 8, 2024 by News Staff

Neutrons are subatomic particles that have no electric charge, unlike protons and electrons. That means that while the electromagnetic force is responsible...

Apr 8, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of the spiral galaxy IC 4633. This Hubble image shows IC 4633,...

Apr 8, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Pareiasaurs were an enigmatic and diverse group of plant-eating animals from the Middle and Late Permian. An artistic reconstruction of Nanoparia luckhoffi....

Apr 5, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Aureia rerehua had unique teeth which might have formed a cage around small fish; these teeth, along with a weak vertex, flexible neck, and the smallest...

Apr 5, 2024 by News Staff

Physicists with the CMS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have successfully measured the effective leptonic electroweak mixing angle....

Apr 5, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Using data from ESA’s Characterising ExOplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) and several other ESA and NASA missions, astronomers have detected signs of the rainbow-like...

Apr 4, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of elasmosaurid — a type of plesiosaur with an extremely long, slender neck — has been identified from the fossilized...

Apr 4, 2024 by News Staff

A team of particle physicists from the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, King’s College London and Fermi National Accelerator...

Apr 3, 2024 by News Staff

Two new Jurassic species — the morganucodontan-like Dianoconodon youngi and the pseudotribosphenic shuotheriid Feredocodon chowi — offer key...

Apr 3, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured a new image of the central starburst region of Messier 82 (M82, NGC 3034 or...

Apr 3, 2024 by News Staff

In new research, a team of paleontologists examined the tooth structure of Feredocodon chowi, a new species of shuotheriid mammaliaform that lived in what...

Apr 3, 2024 by News Staff

The rare amulet-seal is at least 2,800 years old (First Temple period), according to a team of experts from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the University...

Apr 3, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured a spectacular image of I Zwicky 18 (I Zw 18 for short), the archetypal extremely...