New research by scientists from the University of Reading and the University of Durham shows that encephalization (i.e., relative brain size increase)...
The Linear Pottery Culture (Linearbandkeramik, LBK) communities, which were the first to spread farming across large parts of Europe, showed no signs of...
The newly-discovered exoplanet orbits TOI-3261 (also known as TIC 358070912), an inactive main-sequence star located 300 parsecs (978.5 light-years) away...
Drinking enough water can help with weight loss and prevent kidney stones, as well as migraines, urinary tract infections and low blood pressure, according...
Paleoanthropologists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old footprints of two completely different species of hominins — Homo erectus and Paranthropus...
These Earth-size ovals at Jupiter’s north and south poles are visible only at ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, and appear and disappear seemingly at random,...
Bone needles found at the 12,900-year-old site of La Prele in Wyoming, the United States, were produced from the bones of foxes; hares; and felids such...
Paleontologists from Sweden and Poland have examined hundreds of fossilized samples of feces and vomit from the Polish Basin in central Europe to reconstruct...
Scientists from Curtin University and the University of Adelaide have analyzed a 4.45-billion-year-old zircon grain from a famous Martian meteorite called...
Archaeologists say they have unearthed an entrance to a large stone temple in the ancient Egyptian town of Athribis, near to the modern city of Sohag.
The...
Nociceptors are receptors that detect injurious stimuli and are necessary to convey such information from the periphery to the central nervous system....
Several of the icy moons in the Jupiter and Saturn systems appear to possess internal liquid water oceans. Our knowledge of the Uranian moons is more limited...
Paleontologists have described a new species of fossil temnospondyl amphibian from the Triassic Jelm Formation of Wyoming, preserved in torpedo-shaped...
456P/PANSTARRS, an active, main-belt asteroid first spotted in 2021, is recurrently active, and activity is likely driven by the sublimation of volatile...
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species of quetzalcoatline azhdarchid pterosaur, Nipponopterus mifunensis, from the Late Cretaceous...
The sharp resolution of Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) brings into focus details of the Sombrero galaxy’s outer ring, providing insights into...
The Vikings played a preeminent role in the peopling of the North Atlantic, and one might expect populations that were founded by them to be genetically...
The world’s thinnest spaghetti is just 372 nm across — about 200 times thinner than a human hair.
Britton et al. used a scanning electron microscope,...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an amazing new photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 2090.
This Hubble image shows NGC 2090,...
