Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have determined the 3D shape and the mass of the asteroid (216) Kleopatra and correct orbits of its...
An international team of researchers has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of the kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus), a flightless parrot endemic...
A team of scientists at the University of Helsinki has studied cat personality and behavior by collecting a large dataset of 4,316 cats from 56 different...
Archaeologists have examined a large assemblage of 45,000-year-old stone tools and by-products of tool-making process from the site of Heidenschmiede in...
Perseverance’s first cored-rock sample from Jezero Crater, Mars, is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, making it available for retrieval...
Paleontologists have described the largest Cambrian hurdiid radiodont known so far, named Titanokorys gainesi, from the Burgess Shale, British Columbia,...
New research shows that a signaling molecule encoded by a gene called Dickkopf 4 underlies a naturally occurring mutation that affects tabby patterns and...
Physicists from the Department of Health Science and Technology in the Institute of Food Nutrition and Health at the ETH Zürich have applied the science...
An international team of scientists has discovered two new species of freshwater mussels endemic to the island of Borneo and established a new genus for...
Ultradiffuse galaxies are dwarf galaxies whose stars are spread out over a vast region, resulting in extremely low brightness, making them very difficult...
Using high-resolution observational of two very similar globular clusters, Messier 3 and Messier 13, astronomers have found an unexpected overabundance...
An international team of scientists led by Flinders University has found evidence of prenatal auditory learning in embryos of three vocal learning species...
Avian olfaction is not just limited to vultures and a few other bird species, according to new research from the University of California, Davis, and Riverside.
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Indian wolves (Canis lupus pallipes) could represent the most ancient surviving lineage of wolves, according to an analysis of the animal’s newly-sequenced...
2021 PJ1, a near-Earth asteroid between 20 and 30 m (66-98 feet) across, safely flew past Earth on August 14, 2021 at a distance of over 1.7 million km...
A team of U.S. scientists led by Chicago State University has analyzed species limits and diversification patterns in spotted skunks using nuclear and...
The initial images captured by the Mastcam-Z instrument onboard NASA’s Perseverance rover show an intact Mars sample present in a sample tube after coring.
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A critically endangered species of lizard called Conolophus marthae is in dire need of conservation action, according to researchers from Galápagos Conservancy...
The new reconfigurable memristor, or an electronic memory device, is based on a molecular system that can transition between on and off states at several...
