A population of free-floating planets is known from gravitational microlensing surveys. None have a directly measured mass, owing to a degeneracy with...
Compared to other primates, humans have remarkably large brains relative to their body sizes. The resultant high demands for glucose may have been supported...
Astronomers discovered an enormous galaxy cluster called RM J130558.9+263048.4 on December 31, 2020; the date, combined with the bubble-like appearance...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is traditionally considered irreversible. However, a team of scientists led by Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals...
Archaeologists from the University of Tübingen and the LMU Munich have unearthed the ruins of an ancient pottery workshop at the early Iron Age Dinka...
A rare trio of merging galaxies called J121/1219+1035 hosts three actively feeding, radio-bright supermassive black holes, according to a team of U.S....
Frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years, according to new research led by University College Cork.
Falk et al. show that the geometry...
The dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes poses a severe and global threat to public health. A new comprehensive review by Hohai University scientists...
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space telescope has completed its first...
University of Maryland paleontologist Thomas R. Holtz Jr. has spent decades puzzling over how dinosaurs fit into their ancient worlds — and how those...
The protoplanetary disk around IRAS 23077+6707, a young star located roughly 1,000 light-years away, is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, with wisps...
The skeletal remains of an individual colloquially referred to as Beachy Head Woman were re-discovered in the Eastbourne Town Hall collection in 2012,...
Researchers have found ancient gases and fluids trapped in 1.4-billion-year-old halite crystals from northern Ontario, Canada. Their analyses directly...
Using the WISPR (Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, scientists observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS...
The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition approximately 50,000 to 38,000 years ago is marked by the decline and extinction of Neanderthals, the emergence...
In the 4th century BCE, at least four wooden plank boats the island of Als off the coast of Denmark. The unknown attackers were defeated, with the defenders...
Paleontologists have examined the 160-million-year-old fossils of Anchiornis huxleyi, a species of non-avian theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Tiaojishan...
Scientists using the Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instrument aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft have observed 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed...
The data from NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn initially led researchers to suspect a large underground ocean composed of liquid water on Titan. However,...
