A close flyby of a Sun-mass star several billion years ago could explain some unusual features observed in the outer Solar System.
An artist’s concept...
Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive and largest structures that can be found in the Universe. A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...
Sodium (a component of table salt) intake is associated with cardiovascular disease and strokes only in communities where mean intake is greater than 5...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched yesterday (August 12) from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, rising off the...
In a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Columbia University astronomer Sarah Pearson and co-authors show how gas...
Recent observations by NASA’s space telescopes of ultrahot Jupiter-like exoplanets have surprised astronomers. The spectra of these planets have suggested...
Citizen scientist Philip Mullaly and professional paleontologists have found a very rare set of fossilized shark teeth at Jan Juc, a renowned fossil site...
Oriental cuckoos (Cuculus optatus) vary the size of their eggs to match those of their hosts, a new study published in the Journal of Zoology has found.
Meshcheryagina...
Aging is characterized by a progressive decline of physiological function accompanied by increased incidence of age-related disease. The accumulation of...
According to new research led by the University of Southern Denmark, tubular structures found inside garnets (pyrope and almandine) from Thailand are most...
The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is one of the most unusual primates on Earth famed for its large eyes, big ears and bony finger used for probing....
A big earthquake can not only cause other quakes, but large ones, and on the opposite side of our planet, according to new research from Oregon State University.
O’Malley...
Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) have examined a small group of five galaxies in the southern hemisphere. The results will be published...
There are multiple theories as to what caused the collapse of the Classic Maya civilization, such as invasion, war, environmental degradation, etc. In...
Paleontologists have discovered the first North American co-occurrence of hadrosaur and therizinosaur tracks, providing more evidence that Alaska was the...
Children with IgE-mediated allergies have a lower risk of complicated appendicitis, according to new research published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
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An international team of scientists has successfully sequenced the genome of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes).
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes). Image credit: Dia...
Blue (type IIb) diamonds owe their color to boron, an element abundant in the Earth’s continental and oceanic crust. According to new research led by...
Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have created a wearable microfluidic impedance cytometer with a wireless connection to smartphones. Their...
A team of researchers from Duke and Rockefeller Universities has found that individual neurons can encode information about multiple stimuli simultaneously,...
