Primates, consisting of apes, monkeys, tarsiers, and lemurs, are among the most charismatic and well-studied animals on Earth.
Phylogeny of 455 species...
One of these genetic variants was inherited from Neanderthals, according to a study led by University College London researchers.
El Sidron Neanderthals...
Saturn’s icy rings could be much older than they appear due to their resistance to pollution from impacts with rocky debris.
Hyodo et al. suggest that...
In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of a massive exoplanet around a very old star. Such stars possess only small amounts of heavier elements that are the...
A radiation-resistant bacterium called Deinococcus radiodurans can withstand radiation doses thousands of times higher than what would kill a human. The...
Physicists with the ALICE Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have seen the first ever evidence of antihyperhelium-4, which is composed...
In a genomic study encompassing more than 300 genomes, researchers determined the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans, starting...
Scientists have sequenced and analyzed the genomes of seven individuals who lived between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago in Ranis, Germany and Zlatý kůň,...
Altermagnetism is a distinct form of magnetic order where the tiny constituent magnetic building blocks align antiparallel to their neighbors, but the...
Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, the newly-discovered galaxy existed approximately 600 million years after the Big Bang and consisted of a least 10 star...
In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, archaeologists examined the exceptional human remains from the Middle Trypillia site of Kosenivka (ca....
New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope confirms previous measurements by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of distances between...
Messier 77 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright spiral galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center.
An artist’s concept of Messier 77,...
Dark comets are small bodies with no detected coma that have significant accelerations explainable by outgassing of volatiles, analogous to the first interstellar...
In a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, scientists investigated the associations between intake of added sugar and various...
The OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand...
These asteroids are as small as 10 m across, making them the smallest asteroids ever observed in the main asteroid belt.
An artist’s illustration of...
The swirling spiral arms of Messier 83, one of the most prominent spiral galaxies in the night sky, display a high rate of star formation and have been...
