New research suggests dinosaurs were ecosystem engineers that promoted habitat openness in the Late Cretaceous epoch, and their extinction around 66 million...
Saturn’s magnetosphere contains trapped plasma and energetic charged particles which constantly irradiate the surface of Enceladus. The plasma consists...
Using a technique called Resonance Raman spectroscopy, paleontologists have detected hemoglobin remnants in bone extracts from two dinosaur species, Brachylophosaurus...
The second half of the first millennium CE in Central and Eastern Europe was accompanied by fundamental cultural and political transformations. This period...
Ancient DNA has been useful in reconciling deep evolutionary relationships and responses to ecological changes in elephants and their relatives. In new...
After 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov, 3I/ATLAS is the third object and the second comet from outside the Solar System confirmed.
This image from the Multi-Object...
New research provides a comprehensive look into how wild octopuses use their arms in natural habitats. By analyzing arm movements across diverse environments,...
A large jaw of a predatory archosaur species from the latest Triassic of South Wales, named Zanclodon cambrensis, has long intrigued paleontologists. Could...
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva in Spain have sequenced the genome of a female Atlas blue butterfly...
Does a given color elicit comparable neural activity in two different observers? Do colors elicit area-specific response patterns? To address these questions,...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has explored and sampled igneous and sedimentary rocks within Jezero crater to characterize early Martian geological processes...
Using data gathered by NSF’s Gemini South telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected signatures of methane...
Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found evidence for gaseous methane on the distant dwarf planet Makemake. Reported in...
Neuroscientists from the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University have explored brain circuits that control growth hormone release during...
Astronomers are working their way through the TRAPPIST-1 system with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, demonstrating its unprecedented ability...
Super-cooling radioactive atoms could produce a laser-like neutrino beam, according to a duo of physicists from MIT and the University of Texas at Arlington....
Named Bettongia haoucharae, the newly-discovered species of woylie is already likely extinct, says a team of researchers from Curtin University, the Western...
Several new species of coelacanths that lived at the end of the Triassic period, some 200 million years ago, have been identified from museum specimens...
