A team of researchers from Curtin University and Peking University has used a supercomputer to simulate how a supercontinent forms and found that because...
Cacao, known as the money that grew on trees and as a food from the gods, was brought to the world stage by ancient Mesoamericans. The historical background...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope teamed up to collect data before and after NASA’s Double Asteroid...
Paleontologists have examined the shoulder girdle bones of an extinct species of temnospondyl amphibian called Metoposaurus krasiejowensis.
Metoposaurus...
Dog can smell the changes in our breath and sweat that occur when we’re stressed, according to new research by scientists from Newcastle University and...
Paleontologists have examined the fossilized remains of Tujiaaspis vividus, a species of galeaspid that lived 436 million years ago (Silurian period) in...
The very first stars likely formed when the Universe was only 100 million years old. Known as Population III stars, these stellar objects were so massive...
Wufengella bengtsoni, an extinct species of tommotiid worm that lived during the Cambrian period, resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living...
Unlike most plesiosaurs, Serpentisuchops pfisterae had both a long neck and large, elongated jaws.
Serpentisuchops pfisterae used both its neck and snout...
Researchers have assessed the habituation, learning and cognitive flexibility of a wild population of raccoons (Procyon lotor) in Wyoming, the United States.
Raccoons...
The high-temperature planetary-scale-sized structure is at least 130,000 km (80,778 miles) long, according to a new study led by JAXA scientists.
A panning-view...
Samples of the near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu were brought to Earth by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft.
This image of the asteroid Ryugu was captured...
Sagittarius A*, the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, was observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...
Intensity data of visible light seen by a camera can be plotted as a 3D elevation landscape. The new computer animation, created by citizen scientist and...
