A research team led by Florida Museum of Natural History scientists has compiled 140,499 body size records of over 100 North American mammals to test how...
Individual regional dust events can boost planetary water loss by a factor of five to ten and represent an important driver of atmospheric evolution on...
The Ophiuchus star-forming complex is a complex of interstellar clouds, nebulae and prestellar cores in the constellation of Ophiuchus. At an estimated...
The 5.8-km-wide (3.6-mile) near-Earth asteroid Phaethon, which is the source of the annual Geminid meteor shower, brightens as it gets close to the Sun....
In a new theoretical paper, researchers from the Santa Fe Institute provide a new perspective on the origin of life by arguing that life has emerged many...
When tested, many animals will work for food when similar food is freely available, a phenomenon known as contrafreeloading. In a new study published in...
Chemists have analyzed protein diversity in venom produced by Apis mellifera ligustica in the marri (Corymbia calophylla) ecosystem in southern-western...
Until now, the first fossil evidence of land plants was from the Devonian period (420 million years ago). However, molecular evidence suggests an earlier...
Scientists have examined isotopes collected from the tusk of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) that lived in Alaska approximately 17,100 years ago,...
Sleeping for a short period (i.e. napping) may help mitigate impairments in cognitive processing caused by sleep deprivation, but there is limited research...
New research led by Uppsala University scientists suggests that there were multiple archaic human species that inhabited the Philippines prior to the arrival...
On August 4, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter performed its 11th flight on Mars, snapping multiple photographs during its trip.
This image shows the...
Nicotiana insecticida, one of the newly-discovered species, is remarkable in its insect trapping abilities.
Nicotiana insecticida uses a sticky substance...
New research shows that Machu Picchu, an ancient Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, was occupied from about 1420 to 1532 CE, with activity...
In a paper published this week in the journal iScience, an international team of researchers documented chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan...
The newly-discovered species of golden trapdoor spiders are from south-eastern Queensland, Australia.
Euoplos schmidti. Image credit: Jeremy Wilson.
Australian...
Paleontologists have examined tooth morphologies in multiple lineages of sharks that lived during the 27.6-million-year interval around the end-Cretaceous...
Physicists with the STAR Collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have produced definitive evidence for...
NASA’s Dragonfly mission will send a rotorcraft lander to the surface of Titan in the mid-2030s.
Dragonfly was officially selected for flight by NASA...
