Nov 6, 2019 by News Staff

Constructed from 208 images taken by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during its first year of science operations, completed on July...

Nov 5, 2019 by News Staff

By creating protocells — seen as a key stepping stone to the development of cell-based life — in hot, alkaline seawater, a team of scientists...

Nov 5, 2019 by News Staff

Vulturine guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum), a species of large terrestrial bird from East Africa, live in large, multi-male, multi-female groups that...

Nov 5, 2019 by News Staff

A previously unrecognized mode of fossilization of ancient microbes may explain how some of Earth’s oldest microfossils formed, according to new research. Rasmussen...

Nov 5, 2019 by News Staff

A duo of researchers from France and South Korea has developed a third-generation holographic printing system that produces 3D holograms with an unprecedented...

Nov 5, 2019 by News Staff

In November 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft became only the second human-made object to cross the outer edge of the Sun’s heliosphere, the bubble...

Nov 4, 2019 by News Staff

In a study published in the journal PLoS Genetics, researchers at the University of Bristol searched for the effects of heavy smoking using the UK Biobank...

Nov 1, 2019 by News Staff

Workers make around 13% more sales in weeks where they report being happy compared to weeks when they are unhappy, according to a study by researchers...

Nov 1, 2019 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Nanjing University and Lanzhou University of Technology has developed a stretchable light-emitting device that operates at low...

Nov 1, 2019 by News Staff

The fossil tooth fragments from extinct rhinoceroses that lived 8-9 million years ago have been found in Canada’s Yukon Territory. An artist’s imagining...

Nov 1, 2019 by News Staff

In a paper published in the November 1, 2019 issue of the journal Science, a team of astronomers offers a new way to search for stellar-mass black holes,...

Oct 31, 2019 by News Staff

The direct evidence of the role of galactic winds — ejections of gas from galaxies — in creating the so-called circumgalactic medium has been...

Oct 31, 2019 by News Staff

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study also found that new-born chicks know to slow down or stop moving to avoid being...

Oct 31, 2019 by News Staff

Footprints of duck-billed dinosaurs, armored dinosaurs and a tyrannosaur discovered in Aniakchak National Monument, southwestern Alaska, shed new light...

Oct 31, 2019 by News Staff

Using asteroseismic data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers revised the parameters for two...

Oct 31, 2019 by News Staff

Our brain can recognize familiar music within just 100-300 milliseconds (0.1-0.3 of a second), according to a new study published in the journal Scientific...

Oct 30, 2019 by News Staff

Avocatin B, a fat molecule found only in avocados (Persea americana), can inhibit cellular processes that normally lead to diabetes, according to a study...

Oct 30, 2019 by News Staff

The end-Triassic mass extinction occurred 201.51 million years ago and resulted in the demise of some 76% of all marine and land species. Up until now,...

Oct 30, 2019 by News Staff

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a gorgeous new image taken by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) of a giant elliptical galaxy called...

Oct 30, 2019 by News Staff

Complex chemical signals are triggered when water lands on a plant to help it prepare for the dangers of rain, according to a new study published in the...