A team of astronomers from MIT has observed evidence that the Universe’s first stars exploded as asymmetric supernovae, strong enough to scatter heavy...
A team of marine biologists from the University of Washington has found communities of arsenic-breathing microbes in the oxygen-deficient zones of the...
Astronomers using the Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, have detected the faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in the remnant of...
On April 25 and 26, 2019, NSF’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based Virgo detector registered two new gravitational...
In touchscreen experiments that allowed animals to provide food to others, wolves (Canis lupus) acted more prosocially toward their pack members than did...
Leonardo da Vinci suffered a disease in his late career that affected his ability to hold palettes and brushes to paint with his right hand; although this...
An international team of anthropologists and bioarchaeologists has found the primary ingredients of ayahuasca — a plant-based drink that is reported...
Prions are misfolded versions of a protein that can spread like an infection by forcing normal copies of that protein into the same self-propagating, misfolded...
A team of paleontologists from Bulgaria and Germany has found the surprisingly unusual and perfectly preserved millipede in 99-million-year-old amber from...
According to new research published in the journal Physical Review Letters, charged particles traveling through empty space can emit Cherenkov radiation...
A new study by researchers from the Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea, showed that secondhand smoke exposure was significantly associated...
In April 2019, NASA’s InSight lander used its Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) to capture a series of Martian sunrise and sunset images.
NASA’s InSight...
According to new research, a nearby binary neutron-star merger gave birth to 0.3% of the Earth’s heaviest elements, including gold, platinum and uranium;...
Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) feed almost exclusively on highly fibrous bamboo, yet they bear a mix of herbivore and carnivore traits. A new study...
A duo of researchers from the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University has made the first-ever measurements of ancient water contained...
A team of researchers from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, the University of Copenhagen, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources and Malaysia’s...
V404 Cygni is a binary system comprising a black hole and a star orbiting one another. It lies in the constellation Cygnus at a distance of about 7,800...
