Paleontologists from Flinders University have examined the brains of four species of extinct giant mihirungs (dromornithid birds): Ilbandornis woodburnei...
Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes (ALMA, APEX, the IRAM 30-m telescope,...
A research team led by University College London archaeologists has discovered a 5,000-year-old dismantled stone circle in west Wales, close to Stonehenge’s...
A team of zoologists from Germany and Czech Republic has discovered a new species of chameleon living on the slopes of the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia.
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Obtained using the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, the new image of Messier 106 shows not only the galaxy’s spiral...
Physicists from the LHCb Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have observed four new exotic particles: Zcs(4000)+, Zcs(4220)+, X(4685),...
The hominin fossil record of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) indicates that at least two super-archaic species, Homo luzonensis and Homo floresiensis, were...
The ancient Maya made salt by boiling brine in pots over fires in salt kitchens, according to a paper by Louisiana State University’s Professor Heather...
Ghrelin, a stomach-derived hormone known to regulate appetite and other food-related functions, may play a broad role in reward-related behavior and decision-making,...
The Standard Model of particle physics currently provides our best description of fundamental particles and their interactions. The new results from CERN’s...
In a paper published in the journal iScience, a team of marine biologists from Japan, the United States and France reports the discovery of circling behavior...
Using data from the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have identified emission from two isomers of a small polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon...
Physicists from the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) Collaboration at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider in China have detected the first candidate for...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed Saturn, the second largest planet in our Solar System, in 2018, 2019, and 2020, just after...
Physicists from the TOTEM (TOTal cross section, Elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation Measurement) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider...
A team of scientists at Cornell University has created micron-sized shape memory actuators that enable atomically thin 2D materials to fold themselves...
1I/‘Oumuamua, a strange object of extrasolar origin discovered on October 19, 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope, was small, about half as long as a...
Phosphorus is one of the key elements for life, involved in biomolecules such as DNA, RNA, phospholipids, and adenosine triphosphate. Phosphide minerals...
