Astronomers using the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected supermassive black hole-driven winds in the barred spiral galaxy...
Colossal Biosciences, the world’s only de-extinction company, has announced the rebirth of the once extinct dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus).
Colossal Biosciences’...
Paleontologists in China have unearthed a relatively complete skull and vertebrae that belonged to a previously unknown metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaur...
A diverse array of animals has evolved the ability to use tools (e.g., primates, parrots, octopus, crabs, and wasps), but the factors leading to tool use...
Using Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s 88-Inch Cyclotron, an international team of physicists has successfully made two atoms of livermorium (atomic...
Officially named Kohoutek 4-55, this little-known planetary nebula lies within our Milky Way Galaxy.
This Hubble image shows Kohoutek 4-55, a planetary...
The quantum superposition principle allows us to prepare a system in a superposition of two arbitrary states. The paradigmatic example is the superposition...
The newly-discovered shape-recovering liquids defy long-held expectations derived from the laws of thermodynamics, according to a team of physicists at...
Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can...
A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming a smaller one in a series of images taken by a navigation camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover.
Dust devils...
Apes and monkeys possess special anatomical structures in their throats called vocal membranes, which disappeared from humans through evolution to allow...
The destructive power of an impacting asteroid is primarily estimated by knowledge of its size. The near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 reached a peak 2032 impact...
Paleontologists have discovered 131 tracks of large theropods and sauropods in the Middle Jurassic Kilmaluag Formation at Prince Charles’s Point, situated...
Light from an extremely distant spiral galaxy was bent and magnified by the gravity of a member of the galaxy cluster SMACSJ0028.2-7537 into a ring-like...
New research from the University of Bristol provides evidence that many mammals were already shifting toward a more ground-based lifestyle leading up to...
While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a static period in East Asia....
Certain lichen species can withstand Mars-like conditions with an X-ray radiation dose of 50 Gy (Grays) that is expected on the Mars surface over one year...
An unexpected phenomenon called convection could help explain many of the volcanoes and other features of the Venusian landscape.
Artist’s impression...
