Dec 11, 2024 by News Staff

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,...

Dec 10, 2024 by News Staff

Dark comets are small bodies with no detected coma that have significant accelerations explainable by outgassing of volatiles, analogous to the first interstellar...

Dec 10, 2024 by News Staff

In a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, scientists investigated the associations between intake of added sugar and various...

Dec 10, 2024 by News Staff

The OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand...

Dec 9, 2024 by News Staff

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...

Dec 9, 2024 by News Staff

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...

Dec 9, 2024 by News Staff

Planetary researcher Tereza Constantinou and her colleagues at the University of Cambridge have examined the chemical composition of the Venusian atmosphere...

Dec 6, 2024 by News Staff

Consumption of at least five servings of dark chocolate a week (one serving is equal to a standard chocolate bar/pack or 1 oz) compared with rare consumption...

Dec 5, 2024 by News Staff

Higher emotional intelligence is linked to more emoji use with friends, while avoidant attachment is associated with less emoji use with friends and dating...

Dec 5, 2024 by News Staff

Several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs — tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and members of the Velociraptor family — stalked what is now the Bexhill-on-Sea...

Dec 5, 2024 by News Staff

The new proof-of-concept work, published in the journal Materials Horizons, paves the way for self-assembling more complex electronic devices without relying...

Dec 4, 2024 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists have found that the Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) was the largest contributor to the diet of the Clovis people — the...

Dec 4, 2024 by News Staff

Biologists have identified a new gene in California poplar trees (Populus trichocarpa) — named BOOSTER — that enhances photosynthesis and can...

Dec 4, 2024 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Cornell University has created a new class of magnetically controlled microscopic robots (microbots) that operate at the visible-light...

Dec 3, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array, an international experiment that uses the MeerKAT Radio Telescope in South Africa, have uncovered further...

Dec 3, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of whiteflies and a psyllid from fossils found in Miocene-period crater lake sediments at Hindon...

Dec 3, 2024 by News Staff

Physicists have found a new way to use data from high-energy particle smashups to peer inside protons. Their approach uses quantum information science...

Dec 2, 2024 by News Staff

Primordial black holes have been theorized for decades and could even be ever-elusive dark matter. Still, no primordial black hole has ever been observed....

Nov 29, 2024 by News Staff

New research by scientists from the University of Reading and the University of Durham shows that encephalization (i.e., relative brain size increase)...

Nov 29, 2024 by News Staff

The Linear Pottery Culture (Linearbandkeramik, LBK) communities, which were the first to spread farming across large parts of Europe, showed no signs of...