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Archaeologists Find 3,450-Year-Old Alphabetic Inscription in Israel

The 3,450-year-old alphabetic inscription on a sherd from Tel Lachish, Israel. Image credit: J. Dye, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Apr 20, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology has discovered an inscribed sherd at the site of Tel Lachish, which is located in the Shephelah region in modern-day Israel and is one of the most prominent Bronze and Iron Age sites of the Southern Levant. Dating to the 15th century BCE, the newly-discovered inscription is currently the oldest securely dated alphabetic...

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Life reconstruction of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas). Image credit: Biodiversity Heritage Library / Sci-News.com.

Scientists Sequence Genome of Extinct Steller’s Sea Cow

Apr 19, 2021 by Natali Anderson

A multinational team of researchers has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas). Their results show...

NASA’s Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Right Navigation Camera (Navcam). The camera is located high on the rover’s mast and aids in driving. The image was taken on April 19, 2021 at the local mean solar time of 12:33:35. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Successfully Demonstrates Powered, Controlled Flight on Mars

Apr 19, 2021 by News Staff

On April 19, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made history, hovering above Jezero Crater on Mars, demonstrating that powered, controlled flight on another...

A life reconstruction of the stegosaur trackmakers and paleoenvironment 110 million years ago. Image credit: Kaitoge.

World’s Smallest Stegosaur Footprint Found

Apr 16, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 5.7-cm-long stegosaur footprint in Xinjiang province, China. A life reconstruction of the stegosaur...

Ecological reconstruction of Pelretes vivificus in the Burmese amber forest; the flowers in the reconstruction are based on Lijinganthus revoluta. Image credit: J. Sun.

98-Million-Year-Old Pollen-Feeding Beetle Found Preserved in Amber

Apr 14, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found an exceptionally preserved short-winged flower beetle and associated pollen aggregations and coprolites in a piece of mid-Cretaceous...

4,000-Year-Old Carved Stone Slab is Europe’s Oldest Known Map

Apr 14, 2021 by News Staff

An intricately carved stone slab from the early Bronze Age found in France has been identified as the oldest cartographical representation of a known territory...

Life reconstruction of Kunpengopterus antipollicatus in the Tiaojishan paleoforest; opposed pollex depicted as being utilized in handling food items (a palaeontinid) and in clinging to trees (a ginkgo). Image credit: Chuang Zhao.

Small Jurassic Pterosaur Had an Opposed Thumb

Apr 13, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Opposed thumbs are adaptations to arboreal life and rare for non-mammal vertebrates; Kunpengopterus antipollicatus, a newly-discovered species of arboreal...

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New Species of Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unearthed in New Mexico

Apr 12, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new genus and species of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur, based on the skeletal remains found in New...

Gray wolves take down a horse on the mammoth-steppe habitat of Beringia during the Late Pleistocene, around 25,000 years ago. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi.

Yukon Wolves Survived Ice-Age Extinction Thanks to Changes in Their Diet

Apr 12, 2021 by News Staff

Gray wolves (Canis lupus) from the Yukon Territory, Canada, survived the extinction at the end of the last Ice Age by adapting their diet over thousands...

Two New Species of Cretaceous Mammal Relatives Unearthed in China

Apr 8, 2021 by News Staff

Fossiomanus sinensis and Jueconodon cheni, two distantly related species of mammaliamorphs that lived some 120 million years ago (Early Cretaceous epoch),...

New Measurements of Muon’s Magnetic Moment Strengthen Evidence of New Physics

Apr 8, 2021 by News Staff

The Standard Model, scientists’ best description of the makeup and behavior of the Universe yet, very precisely predicts the g-factor of a fundamental...

This image from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft shows a volcanic explosion on Io. Image credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizon.

ALMA Detects Volcanic Gases in Atmosphere of Io

Apr 7, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers from India have detected acetone, disulfur monoxide, and carbon monoxide...

This artist’s conception shows the brilliant light of two quasars residing in the cores of two galaxies that are in the chaotic process of merging. Image credit: NASA / ESA / J. Olmsted, STScI.

Astronomers Discover Two Very Distant Double Quasars

Apr 7, 2021 by News Staff

The two newly-discovered pairs of quasars, J0749+2255 and J0841+4825, existed 10 billion years ago and resided in the cores of merging galaxies, according...

The black-throated trogon (Trogon rufus). Image credit: Moisés Silva Lima / CC BY 2.0.

New Species of Bird Discovered in Brazil

Apr 6, 2021 by Natali Anderson

A team of ornithologists from the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Paraguay has described a new species of trogon from the Atlantic Forest of north-eastern...

New Exotic Isotope of Fluorine Discovered: Fluorine-13

Apr 5, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of U.S. physicists has created a new isotope of fluorine, fluorine-13 (13F), via a charge-exchange reaction between a beam of oxygen-13 (13O) and...

The Walter’s duiker (Philantomba walteri). Image credit: Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford.

Walter’s Duiker Photographed for First Time in the Wild

Apr 5, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of zoologists led by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at the University of Oxford has snapped an...

Trapped antihydrogen atoms being cooled. Image credit: Chukman So.

CERN Physicists Cool Antimatter Using Laser Light for First Time

Apr 5, 2021 by News Staff

Physicists from the ALPHA (Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus) Collaboration at CERN have successfully demonstrated laser cooling of antihydrogen, the...

Trilobite fossil preserved in pyrite. Image credit: Jin-Bo Hou / University of California, Riverside.

Trilobites were Leg Breathers, New Research Shows

Apr 2, 2021 by News Staff

Trilobites had well-developed gill-like structures in their upper leg branches, according to a new imaging study led by the University of California, Riverside. Trilobite...

This composite image shows a Chandra X-ray image of Uranus from 2002 (pink) superimposed on an optical image from the Keck-I Telescope obtained in 2004. Image credit: NASA / CXO / University College London / Dunn et al.

Chandra Detects X-Ray Emission from Uranus

Apr 1, 2021 by News Staff

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, and its ring system appear to mainly produce X-ray emission by scattering solar X-rays, but some may also come...

Life reconstruction of Llukalkan aliocranianus. Image credit: Jorge Blanco.

New Species of Carnivorous Dinosaur Unearthed in Argentina

Mar 31, 2021 by News Staff

A new genus and species of furileusaurian (stiff-backed lizard) abelisaurid dinosaur being named Llukalkan aliocranianus has been discovered by a team...

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