Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum lived 162 million year ago (Late Jurassic epoch) in what is now China.
A rendering of Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum. Image...
A bacteriophage (bacteria-infecting virus) called P74-26 and nicknamed ‘Rapunzel bacteriophage’ lives in inhospitable hot springs and preys on Thermus...
Protoanisolarva juarezi, a new genus and species described from a 247-million-year-old larva, shares key features with Anisopodidae, a small cosmopolitan...
The subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is heated from below via tidal heating and radioactive decay of the rocky interior, while being cooled...
In spring, female thick-shelled river mussels (Unio crassus) were seen moving to the water’s edge and anchoring into the riverbed, with their back ends...
A local wormhole is a physical system characterized by the no-cloning of information that mediates the action of an exchange-free quantum computer: locally...
Astronomers from the COSMOS-Web program released mosaic images taken in early January 2023 by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument...
Dunkleosteus terrelli, an armor-plated fish that lived in the shallow subtropical waters of the Devonian period, about 360 million years ago, is one of...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected gaseous water in the planet-forming disk around V883 Orionis, a...
Like batteries, supercapacitors store and release electricity. But unlike batteries, supercapacitors don’t need a chemical reaction to store energy....
3C 297 is located about 9.2 billion light-years away in the constellation of Virgo and contains a quasar, a supermassive black hole pulling in gas at the...
In the lower atmosphere of Earth, oxygen contains a higher fraction of the heavy isotope 18O than ocean water does. This enrichment is a signature of biological...
The role of the heart in the experience of time has been long theorized but empirical evidence is scarce. In new research, scientists from Cornell University...
Metalenses promise potential for a paradigm shift of conventional optical devices. They comprise tiny, antenna-like surface patterns that can focus light...
New research led by the Swinburne University of Technology shows that the amount of warm carbon suddenly increased by a factor of five over a period of...
‘Sun rays’ are also known as crepuscular rays, from the Latin word for twilight. It was the first time sun rays have been so clearly viewed on Mars.
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It has been suggested for a long time that dark matter would form a density spike around a black hole. However, no promising evidence has been observed...
Khufu’s Pyramid is one of the largest archaeological monuments all over the world, which still holds many mysteries. In 2016 and 2017, the ScanPyramids...