University of Edinburgh scientist Hannah Long and colleagues show how a region of Neanderthal DNA is better at activating a jaw-forming gene than the human...
Paleontologists from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, the University of Texas at El Paso and Montana State University have discovered...
Some of the latest images of 3I/ATLAS — the third confirmed interstellar object to be detected passing through our Solar System, following 1I/ʻOumuamua...
Humans possess the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have, according to new research.
Chen et al. carried out...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1511.
This Hubble image shows...
A research team led by University of Copenhagen scientists has described three new species of the tree toad genus Nectophrynoides from Tanzania’s Eastern...
The new map and digital dataset, named Itiner-e, increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road system by over 110,000 km.
Itiner-e is the most...
New research from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, casts doubt on the long-standing theory that dark energy is driving distant galaxies away increasingly...
Paleontologists from the Institute of Paleobiology at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have described a new species...
At the end of their main-sequence life span, stars similar in mass to our Sun will undergo a period of evolution. This stellar evolution is predicted to...
Lichens are symbioses between fungi and algae (and/or cyanobacteria) that play important ecological roles and colonize many substrates, including fossils....
The new species of hermit crab-associated sea anemone, Paracalliactis tsukisome, secretes and constructs a unique shell-like structure known as a carcinoecium,...
Archaeologists have discovered Oldowan stone tools in three distinct archaeological horizons, spanning approximately 300,000 years (2.75 to 2.44 million...
A review of five years of health records for more than 130,000 adults with insomnia who had used melatonin for at least a year found they were more likely...
Using the Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a new image of the Red Spider Nebula,...
Paleontologists have identified a new Early Miocene species of the rhinocerotid genus Epiaceratherium from the fossilized remains found in the Canadian...
Scientists from University of Sydney and start-up Dewpoint Innovations have created a porous polymer coating that reflects up to 97% of sunlight and radiates...
The Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine contains key Middle to Upper Paleolithic transitional archaeological sites, including the site of Starosele, where archaeologists...
