On July 14, 2021, the Subaru-Asahi Sky Camera on the 8.2-m Subaru Telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai’i, captured a rare meteor outburst associated...
The newly-identified lineage of carnivorous plants is represented by the western false asphodel (Triantha occidentalis), a species of flowering plant from...
Astronomers using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope, a radio telescope situated about 800 km north of Perth, in...
A new species of leaf beetle that lived nearly 49 million years ago (Eocene epoch) in what is now the United States has been named after Sir David Attenborough.
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Fasting before and during exposure to invasive food-borne bacteria protects mice from developing a full-blown gastrointestinal infection, in part through...
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have studied large, long-duration flares in white light on red dwarfs, a class...
Using data from the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, researchers have produced a new infrared map of...
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have detected a set of eight X-ray rings around a low-mass black...
Paleontologists in Australia say they have discovered the fossilized skeletal remains of a new species of flying reptile that lived between 113 and 100...
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite hunts for exoplanets, but its sensitive measurements of stellar brightness make it ideal for studying stellar...
Known as Si.427, the ancient clay tablet was discovered and cataloged along with many other tablets by the 1894 French archaeological expedition at Sippar...
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul have observed several bird species exhibiting...
The upper atmosphere of Jupiter is hotter than expected from the amount of sunlight that it receives: the average temperature should be about minus 73...
A team of paleontologists has digitally reconstructed the facial skeleton and brain endocast of Ichthyornis dispar, a toothed stem bird that lived in North...
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have looked for dust-extinguished supernovae in the nuclear regions of 40 luminous and ultra-luminous...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have detected 8.9-hr variability in both...
Using cutting-edge techniques, paleontologists have produced the first complete 3D skull reconstruction of a primitive tetrapod called Whatcheeria deltae.
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Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) exhibit many of the features typical of mammals with complex cooperative social systems and matrilineal societies, according...
