Physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have independently conducted extensive searches for the rare Higgs...
Osteoderms are bony plates found in the skin of vertebrates, mostly commonly in reptiles where they have evolved independently multiple times, suggesting...
Multivitamin supplementation holds promise as a safe and accessible approach to maintaining cognitive health in older age, according to new research led...
The dispersal of anatomically modern Homo sapiens out of Africa and across Eurasia provides a unique opportunity to examine the impacts of genetic selection...
A team of U.S. scientists has synthesized and implemented high-performance six-degree-of-freedom flight controllers for the Bee ++ , an insect-scale flying...
Symmetry is a tidy and attractive idea that falls apart in our untidy Universe. Indeed, since the 1960s, some kind of broken symmetry has been required...
Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico have observed a bright, compact spot centered at Uranus’ north pole at several wavelengths....
On May 24, 2023, as part of the A Sign in Space project, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will transmit an encoded message to Earth to simulate...
Recently, former and current government officials, legislators, and faculty in the United States have called for research on what their government terms...
New images from the Visible-Broadband Imager (VBI) on NSF’s 4-m Inouye Solar Telescope show a variety of sunspots and quiet regions of the Sun.
These...
Inostrancevia was a tiger-sized, saber-toothed gorgonopsian that lived on the supercontinent Pangea during the Permian period, approximately 252 million...
Taking someone else’s visual perspective marks an evolutionary shift in the formation of advanced social cognition. It enables using others’ attention...
Scientists have constructed and annotated the first reference genome for the sour cherry cultivar Montmorency, a 400-year-old French amarelle selection...
Using the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera at NSF/NOIRLab Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, astronomers have produced a stunning image...
The detection of the Type Ia supernova SN 2020eyj at radio wavelengths show that the exploded white dwarf had a helium-rich companion.
An artist’s rendition...
The gravitationally lensed Supernova (SN) Refsdal was discovered by University of Minnesota astronomer Patrick Kelly in 2014 in the field of MACS J1149.6+2223,...
Nourseothricin, also known as the streptothricin natural product mixture, was discovered in the early 1940s, generating intense initial interest because...
Scientists from the Florida Museum of Natural History and elsewhere have sequenced 391 genes from nearly 2,300 butterfly species, sampled from 90 countries...
Saturn’s ring system may well have formed when dinosaurs were still walking on the Earth, and will last only another few hundred million years at most,...
