Jul 20, 2022 by News Staff

All of the three new species belong to the salamander genus Desmognathus and are found in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States,...

Jul 20, 2022 by News Staff

The mountain fortress of Rabana-Merquly was one of the major regional centers of the Parthian Empire, according to new research led by Heidelberg University. Mount...

Jul 20, 2022 by News Staff

Qikiqtania wakei closely resembles Tiktaalik roseae — the important transitional animal considered a missing link between fish and the earliest limbed...

Jul 19, 2022 by News Staff

In a large-scale functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, neuroscientists from MIT and Harvard University evaluated the claim of language universality...

Jul 19, 2022 by News Staff

TIC 470710327, a massive, compact hierarchical triple-star system recently identified by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), was originally...

Jul 19, 2022 by News Staff

A paleontologist from Oregon State University has found a new species of flower together with a new parasitic wasp species in a piece of amber excavated...

Jul 19, 2022 by News Staff

Several images of Jupiter and its moons as well as images and spectra of solar system asteroids from Webb’s commissioning period are now available on...

Jul 19, 2022 by News Staff

In new research, a team of scientists from Zhejiang University and Vanderbilt University examined horizontal gene transfer — an important evolutionary...

Jul 18, 2022 by News Staff

Consistent with the concept of the gut-brain phenomenon, observational studies suggest a relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and gastrointestinal...

Jul 18, 2022 by News Staff

Using a new deep learning algorithm and data from the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project, astronomers have discovered 40,000 ring galaxies. This Hubble...

Jul 18, 2022 by News Staff

The newly-detected black hole is a member of the binary system VFTS 243, which is located in the famous Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This...

Jul 18, 2022 by News Staff

Scientists from the University of Miami have discovered one 10,000 m2 brine pool and three minor pools of less than 10 m2 in the Gulf of Aqaba, a northern...

Jul 15, 2022 by News Staff

The skull of a woodpecker has long been hypothesized to serve as a shock absorber that minimizes the harmful deceleration of its brain upon impact into...

Jul 14, 2022 by News Staff

Researchers have sequenced and analyzed the genome of a Late Pleistocene hominin from Red Deer Cave located in Southwest China, which was previously reported...

Jul 14, 2022 by News Staff

This enormous mosaic of Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of galaxies in the constellation of Pegasus, is the largest image captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA...

Jul 14, 2022 by News Staff

New research in mice shows that both polyphenol and carbohydrate components of dried plums (Prunus domestica) have prebiotic activity characterized by...

Jul 14, 2022 by News Staff

Two cameras aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured new images of the Southern Ring Nebula, a planetary nebula approximately 2,500...

Jul 13, 2022 by News Staff

A fast radio burst (FRB) dubbed FRB 20191221A persists for up to three seconds, about 1,000 times longer than the average FRB; within this window, astronomers...

Jul 13, 2022 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described a new species of the enigmatic stem-salamander genus Marmorerpeton from the well-preserved fossils found on the Isle of...

Jul 13, 2022 by News Staff

This image, captured in infrared light by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, reveals for previously invisible areas of star formation in NGC...