Jun 4, 2025 by News Staff

The use of fire marks a critical milestone in human evolution, with its initial purposes debated among scholars. While cooking is often cited as the primary...

Jun 4, 2025 by News Staff

Physicists from the Muon g-2 experiment have released their third measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly. The final result agrees with their published...

Jun 4, 2025 by News Staff

The discovery of TOI-6894b — an exoplanet around 86% the size of Jupiter in orbit around a 0.2-solar-mass red dwarf — highlights the need for...

Jun 3, 2025 by News Staff

As part of the Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program, astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have performed new measurements of the Hubble...

Jun 3, 2025 by News Staff

Paranthropus robustus is a well-documented hominin species with no genetic evidence reported so far. It lived between 2 million and 1.2 million years ago...

Jun 3, 2025 by News Staff

In a new study led by scientists from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, caffeine and regular coffee intake in midlife were modestly and favorably...

Jun 3, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have identified peptide markers for three species of extinct Australian megafauna — a hippo-sized wombat, a giant kangaroo, and a...

Jun 3, 2025 by News Staff

It is commonly believed that our own Milky Way Galaxy is on a collision course with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. As a result of their merger, predicted...

Jun 2, 2025 by News Staff

Cats (Felis catus) are companions familiar to people worldwide. Despite their popularity, few studies have investigated the genetic background of their...

Jun 2, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected water, carbon monoxide, and silicon monoxide in the dayside atmosphere of WASP-121b...

Jun 2, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found evidence of a previously unrecognized soft tissue structure in the cheek region of many dinosaur species, which they’ve called...

May 30, 2025 by News Staff

Polar ecosystems are structured and enriched by birds, which nest there seasonally and serve as keystone ecosystem members. Despite the ecological importance...

May 30, 2025 by News Staff

ASKAP J1832-0911 — likely a magnetar or an extremely magnetized white dwarf — emits pulses of radio waves and X-rays for two minutes every...

May 29, 2025 by News Staff

People all around the world live with cats and cats engage in many social behaviors toward their owners. Olfaction is one of the most important sensory...

May 29, 2025 by News Staff

Daily biological functions such as sleep, heart rate and metabolism are timed by intracellular circadian clocks which exist within almost all cells throughout...

May 29, 2025 by News Staff

Flower visitors, including pollinators, produce characteristic sounds through flapping wing movements during flight. These sounds may provide key information...

May 27, 2025 by News Staff

Named 2017 OF201, the newly-discovered trans-Neptunian object is one of the most distant visible objects in our Solar System and is likely large (about...

May 27, 2025 by News Staff

The Gobi Wall is a 321-km-long structure made of earth, stone, and wood, located in the Gobi highland desert of Mongolia. It is the least understood section...

May 27, 2025 by News Staff

To make these high-resolution images and movies, astronomers from NSF’s National Solar Observatory and New Jersey Institute of Technology developed a...

May 26, 2025 by News Staff

In a study published today in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, paleontologists analyzed the ratio of two different zinc isotopes in the...