University of Edinburgh scientist Hannah Long and colleagues show how a region of Neanderthal DNA is better at activating a jaw-forming gene than the human...
Humans possess the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have, according to new research.
Chen et al. carried out...
A research team led by University of Copenhagen scientists has described three new species of the tree toad genus Nectophrynoides from Tanzania’s Eastern...
The new map and digital dataset, named Itiner-e, increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road system by over 110,000 km.
Itiner-e is the most...
New research from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, casts doubt on the long-standing theory that dark energy is driving distant galaxies away increasingly...
At the end of their main-sequence life span, stars similar in mass to our Sun will undergo a period of evolution. This stellar evolution is predicted to...
Lichens are symbioses between fungi and algae (and/or cyanobacteria) that play important ecological roles and colonize many substrates, including fossils....
The new species of hermit crab-associated sea anemone, Paracalliactis tsukisome, secretes and constructs a unique shell-like structure known as a carcinoecium,...
A review of five years of health records for more than 130,000 adults with insomnia who had used melatonin for at least a year found they were more likely...
Paleontologists have identified a new Early Miocene species of the rhinocerotid genus Epiaceratherium from the fossilized remains found in the Canadian...
Scientists from University of Sydney and start-up Dewpoint Innovations have created a porous polymer coating that reflects up to 97% of sunlight and radiates...
Prolonged sitting temporarily impairs vascular function and blood pressure. Dietary strategies during sitting may ameliorate or aggravate the effects of...
Paleontologists have examined an exceptionally well-preserved, near somatically mature tyrannosaur skeleton from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. Their...
Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope have captured a beautiful image of a large nebula, whose mesmerizing appearance resembles the silhouette...
A team of physicists from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy has mathematically shown that our Universe is built on a type of understanding...
Paleontologists have identified the 410-million-year-old specimens of Spongiophyton nanum from the Ponta Grossa Formation in the Paraná Basin of Brazil...
Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have created the large-scale maps of carbon monoxide (CO)-dark molecular gas for the star-forming complex...
Researchers have discovered 6-million-year-old-ice and air in shallow ice cores drilled in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica. They speculate that...
