Jun 23, 2021 by News Staff

Buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) are able to use differences in floral humidity to distinguish between rewarding and non-rewarding flowers, according...

Jun 22, 2021 by News Staff

In a paper published this month in the journal Fungal Biology, a duo of paleontologists from the United States and France described a new genus and species...

Jun 22, 2021 by News Staff

About 66 million years ago, a 10-km- (6.2-mile) wide asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what is now Mexico. While...

Jun 22, 2021 by News Staff

Using data collected by the synthetic aperture radar on NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, a team of planetary researchers has identified a pattern of tectonic...

Jun 22, 2021 by News Staff

In a study involving almost 500,000 adults from the United Kingdom, a team of scientists from the University of Southampton and the University of Edinburgh...

Jun 22, 2021 by News Staff

The end-Permian mass extinction — the most severe extinction event in the past 540 million years — was caused by massive volcanic eruptions...

Jun 21, 2021 by News Staff

The 110-million-year-old footprints discovered in Kent, southern England, were left by three types of dinosaurs, including theropod, ornithopod, and ankylosaur...

Jun 21, 2021 by News Staff

Astrophysical observations show that supermassive black holes exist when the Universe is just 800 million years old after the Big Bang (just 6% of its...

Jun 21, 2021 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind has...

Jun 18, 2021 by News Staff

In a new study published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers, a team of U.S. researchers analyzed the ages of 89 well-dated geological events of the last...

Jun 18, 2021 by News Staff

African coelacanths (Latimeria chalumnae) reach maturity around the age of 55 and gestate their offspring for 5 years, according to a study published in...

Jun 18, 2021 by News Staff

The sweat bee Megalopta genalis, a Neotropical nocturnal bee species that navigates under the forest canopy at light intensities 10 times dimmer than starlight,...

Jun 17, 2021 by News Staff

Betelgeuse, which is located roughly 724 light-years away in the constellation of Orion, is the second-closest red supergiant to Earth. From November 2019...

Jun 17, 2021 by News Staff

Artificial lighting was a crucial physical resource for expanding complex social and economic behavior in groups of Paleolithic humans. Furthermore, the...

Jun 17, 2021 by News Staff

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected a galactic-scale supermassive black hole-driven wind in HSC J124353.93+010038.5...

Jun 17, 2021 by News Staff

Xanthohumol, a prenylated flavonoid produced by hops (Humulus lupulus), and its synthetic derivative, tetrahydroxanthohumol, can mitigate the diet-induced...

Jun 16, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers from the United States and the United Kingdom has made the discovery of a giant, almost symmetrical arc of galaxies...

Jun 16, 2021 by News Staff

Cosmic filaments are cylindrical tendrils of matter hundreds of millions of light-years across. In new research, published in the journal Nature Astronomy,...

Jun 16, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists have identified castoreum — a substance harvested from the castor sacs of beavers — as a component of the design and construction...

Jun 16, 2021 by News Staff

The two novel types of neuroglial cells — usually referred to simply as glial cells or glia — may play an important role in brain plasticity...