A team of paleontologists led by Southern Methodist University has discovered more than 260 footprints of Early Cretaceous dinosaurs in Brazil and in Cameroon,...
Tardigrades are a diverse group of microscopic invertebrates widely known for their extreme survival capabilities. Molecular clocks suggest that tardigrades...
Water is an important component of exoplanets, with its distribution, that is, whether at the surface or deep inside, fundamentally influencing the planetary...
A new genus and species of large theropod dinosaur being named Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus has been discovered in the Middle Jurassic Balabansai Formation in...
Historical and ethnographic sources depict use of portable braced shaft weapons, or pikes, in megafauna hunting and defense during Late Holocene millennia...
TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool dwarf star located 38.8 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius, hosts seven planets. The period ratios of neighboring...
The Hubble astronomers have released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 4879.
This Hubble...
Multiple studies have demonstrated that European colonization of the Americas led to the extinction of nearly all North American dog mitochondrial lineages...
Astronomers using the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have observed Polaris, a member of a triple system and the nearest and...
A new species of three-bearded rockling has been described from one specimen collected using a grab sample from the Tanoûdêrt Canyon off Mauritania at...
Scientists from James Madison University have performed a multi-variable investigation of thunderstorm environments in two distinct geographic regions:...
Using a large assemblage of human fossils from Ice Age Europe, paleoanthropologists have identified a population turnover in Western Europe at 28,000 years...
Paleontologists have found the fossilized bones from a new species of the parrot genus Agapornis at three localities of the UNESCO World Heritage site...
Researchers from the University of Konstanz and elsewhere have sequenced the genomes of the African (Protopterus annectens) and South American lungfishes...
Despite recent progress, the question of what regulates the star formation efficiency in galaxies remains one of the most debated problems in astrophysics....
New research suggests that UK Biobank participants who use solariums and who live at locations with higher annual average residential shortwave radiation...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a beautiful image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 11861.
This Hubble image shows UGC...
The so-called Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid that had formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter, according to a new paper published in the...
