On April 19, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made history, hovering above Jezero Crater on Mars, demonstrating that powered, controlled flight on another...
Supplementation of cocoa powder, derived from Theobroma cacao, in the diet of high-fat-fed mice with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease reduced the severity...
An international team of scientists has developed new methods for the enrichment and analysis of nuclear DNA from sediments, and applied them to cave deposits...
Paleontologists estimate that the abundance of one of the best-known dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, at any one time was about 20,000 individuals, that the...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 5.7-cm-long stegosaur footprint in Xinjiang province, China.
A life reconstruction of the stegosaur...
Scientists have described a new species of aquatic snail from a karstic spring in Montenegro and named it after Novak Djokovic, a famous Serbian tennis...
Historical and ethnographic literature from across Africa suggests bee products, honey and larvae, had considerable importance both as a food source and...
Paleontologists have found that the thin neck vertebrae of the azhdarchid pterosaurs got their strength from an intricate internal structure.
An artist’s...
Biologists have found a multiple sex chromosome system comprising three different chromosome pairs in Odorrana swinhoana, a species of medium to large-sized...
Paleontologists have found an exceptionally preserved short-winged flower beetle and associated pollen aggregations and coprolites in a piece of mid-Cretaceous...
An intricately carved stone slab from the early Bronze Age found in France has been identified as the oldest cartographical representation of a known territory...
New research by Griffith University and University of Cape Town scientists provides the first traceological evidence of multipurpose nature of Australian...
Paleoanthropologists have uncovered two new specimens of Homo erectus at the East Turkana site in Kenya. They’ve also verified the age of a skull fragment...
Few-layered black phosphorus is highly antimicrobial toward resistant bacteria and fungal species; it is one of the thinnest antimicrobial coatings developed...
An international team of archaeologists has uncovered a 3,300-year-old city in the southern province of Luxor in Egypt.
The 3,300-year-old ruins of Aten...
The chest beat of male mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) is an honest signal of body size, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific...
An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of the cuckoo wasp genus Chrysis living in Norway.
Cuckoo wasps. Image credit: Arnstein...
Gray wolves (Canis lupus) from the Yukon Territory, Canada, survived the extinction at the end of the last Ice Age by adapting their diet over thousands...
Located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation of Taurus, the Crab Nebula and its pulsar formed in a supernova whose light reached Earth in July 1054;...
