Paleontologists have examined a large assemblage of dinosaur tracks and fossilized plants from the Nanushuk Formation, which crops out over much of the...
Geoscientists from Australia and France have used the geological record of Earth’s deep oceans to discover a connection between the orbits of our home...
The fastest animals are neither large elephants nor tiny ants, but intermediately sized, like cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus). Why does running speed break...
When you are trying to solve one of the biggest conundrums in cosmology, you should triple check your homework. The puzzle, called the Hubble Tension,...
Astronomers using the powerful Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program...
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a triangular metal plate with a special message when it launches in October 2024 and heads toward Jupiter’s...
Neuroscientists at the University of Michigan have identified a thermoreceptor that mediates cold sensing in somatosensory neurons.
GluK2 KO mice are defective...
NGC 604 is similar to familiar starbirth regions in our Milky Way Galaxy, such as the Orion Nebula, but it is much larger in extent and contains many more...
Paleontologists have described a new species of enantiornithine bird with a toothless beak from the Jehol avifauna of China. The discovery pushes back...
Physicists from the LHCb Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have reported the first observation of the decay of the Bc+ meson (composed...
Culture refers to behaviors that are socially learned and persist within a population over time. Increasing evidence suggests that animal culture can,...
The lifestyle of spinosaurid dinosaurs has been a topic of lively debate ever since the unveiling of important new skeletal parts for Spinosaurus aegyptiacus...
The interaction sheds new light on the dynamics between gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) and white-tailed eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla), according to Clare...
Astronomers have proposed a new theory that explains why a puzzling population of white dwarf stars stopped cooling for at least eight billion years.
This...
The new method, developed by a team of physicists from the University of Bonn and the University of Bristol, makes it possible to precisely determine the...
New observations of 86 planet-forming disks provide astronomers with a wealth of data and unique insights into how planets arise in different regions of...
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have discovered that two distantly related model plants, Arabidopsis thaliana and the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum),...
Paleontologists have described a new species of the crab genus Pseudocarcinus from large-sized fossilized specimens found at Taranaki, North Island, New...
Using data from the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) instrument onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, planetary scientists have calculated the...
Individual neurons coordinate to produce rhythmic waves that propel fluid through dense brain tissue, washing the tissue in the process, according to new...
