In a study published recently in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the University of California, Irvine and elsewhere investigated the effects...
Paleontologists have examined new microfossils of a Cambrian microscopic animal called Saccorhytus coronarius, which was previously interpreted as a deuterostome,...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has announced a contest to name extrasolar planetary systems to be observed by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space...
The underwater snow is known to form in low temperature environments, e.g., beneath ice shelves, on Earth. New research led by University of Texas at Austin...
Harper Forbes and Prakrit Jain, high school students from California’s Bay Area, have discovered two new species of the scorpion genus Paruroctonus.
Paruroctonus...
How sauropod dinosaurs, which include the largest animals that walked the Earth, were able to withstand the forces associated with their immense size represents...
With an age of 4.57 billion years, the Sun is currently in its comfortable middle age, fusing hydrogen into helium and generally being rather stable; staid...
Human speech and language are highly complex, consisting of a large number of sounds. The human larynx (voice box) has acquired the capability to create...
In new research, Dr. Stephan Lautenschlager from the University of Birmingham analyzed the shape of the eye sockets in 410 specimens of dinosaurs and related...
Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star located around 650 light-years away in the constellation of Orion, underwent a historic dimming between December 2019...
Grapes contain polyphenols and flavonoids that are known for their antioxidative and anti-inflammatory effects.
Grape consumption reduces fatty liver,...
SNR G106.3+2.7, a supernova remnant located about 2,600 light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus, is producing protons with energies 10 times greater...
Earth is the only planet known to have continents, although how they formed and evolved is unclear.
An artist’s concept of meteors impacting the ancient...
Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one of the twin telescopes of the International Gemini Observatory, have captured a stunning image of a pair...
A team of researchers has discovered 88 fossilized human footprints in Utah’s West Desert, the United States.
Dr. Daron Duke speaks with visitors to...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected the emission from 13CO — measure of the molecular gas distribution...
Living birds have bodies substantially modified from the ancestral reptilian condition. The bird pelvis (hip bone) in particular experienced major changes...
Italian archeologists have unearthed four new rooms in the House of the Lararium in Pompeii filled with various everyday household objects, such as amphorae,...
A poorly known species of hummingbird called the Santa Marta sabrewing (Campylopterus phainopeplus) has been unexpectedly rediscovered in the highlands...
Although star formation is one of the most fundamental processes of astrophysics, there is no widely accepted theory of star formation, despite decades...
