In at least 400 European caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, Upper Paleolithic humans drew, painted and engraved non-figurative signs from at...
Intracluster light is diffuse light from stars that are gravitationally bound not to individual member galaxies, but to the halo of galaxy clusters. In...
Scientists have sequenced the chromosome-level genomes of the great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) and the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) sharks. Their...
The novel method, developed by nuclear physicists at the STAR detector of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), relies on particles of light that...
Solid- or liquid-state cooling strategies often rely on caloric effects in which materials are taken through some sort of phase change. Researchers from...
In the study, five epilepsy surgery patients were presented with images of famous speakers (U.S. presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton)...
The newly-discovered frog species belong to the subgenus Brygoomantis within the mantellid frog genus Mantidactylus.
The newly-discovered frog species...
Fluid intelligence is arguably the defining feature of human cognition. It predicts educational and professional success, social mobility, health, and...
Most birds today can lift the upper beak independently of the brain case, enabled by a series of mobile joints and bending zones in the skull. The computed...
Enceladus, the sixth-biggest moon of Saturn, is a top candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life in the Solar System.
An artist’s impression of...
In a large population-based observational study with a long 25-years follow-up, scientists at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute analyzed links...
Octopuses and their cephalopod relatives are exceptionally intelligent invertebrates with a highly complex nervous system that evolved independently from...
The newly-discovered species belongs to Solanum, a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Solanum scalarium....
The SMART 5-A-DAY app is available in the Google Play Store for Android phones from December 29, 2022. It tells users whether they are eating the right...
Physicists from the LHCb Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have performed new tests of lepton universality, one of the basic principles...
Scientists from the University of Otago, Saint Michael’s College and Duke University have examined 447 permanent teeth from two species of monkey lemurs...
Transparency in animals is a complex form of camouflage involving mechanisms that reduce the scattering and absorption of light throughout the organism....
This new image, captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope as part of the Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science (PEARLS)...
In new research, led by the University of California, Santa Cruz and Princeton University, scientists reconstructed the history of sea level at the Bering...
