Science

Violent Collision May Have Destroyed Milky Way’s First ...

New simulations suggest a violent collision 11 billion years ago reshaped our G...

Mystery of Tyrannosaurus rex’s Tiny Arms May Finally Ha...

Paleontologists from University College London and the University of Cambridge ...

New Jurassic Pterosaur Unearthed in Germany

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of early monofenestratan...

MAVEN Detects Rare Atmospheric Effect on Mars

New observations from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spa...

Sugary Diets May Cause Long-Term Memory Problems Even a...

An analysis of 27 animal studies found that switching to a healthier diet impro...

Insects May Feel Pain, New Study Suggests

When an antenna of the house cricket (Acheta domesticus) is touched with a heat...

Formicine Ants Produce Hidden Arsenal of Venom Peptides...

Entomologists have discovered that carpenter ants -- the largest genus within t...

Do Europa’s Water Plumes Really Exist? New Study Reopen...

New research led by planetary scientists from Southwest Research Institute and ...

Hubble Space Telescope Peers into Post-Starburst Galaxy

NGC 1266 appears frozen between two cosmic identities, offering astronomers a c...

Giant Tyrannosaur Fossil Found in New Mexico

A large tyrannosaurid dinosaur may have stalked the floodplains of what is now ...

Astronomers Catch Interstellar Turbulence Warping Light...

For the first time, astronomers have directly detected how turbulent clouds of ...

Homo erectus May Have Co-Existed with Denisovans in Eas...

Scientists have extracted and analyzed proteins from the tooth enamel of six Ho...

Galaxy Cluster Abell 2029 Had Violent Past, Chandra Rev...

Deep X-ray observations of Abell 2029 -- sometimes described as the most relaxe...

Most Australia’s ‘Wild Dogs’ Are Actually Dingoes, DNA ...

A large genetic survey reveals that the country’s so-called ‘wild dogs’ remain ...

Giant New Dinosaur Species Discovered in Thailand Revea...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of somphospondylan tita...

Paleontologists Find Lost Ice Age World in Flooded Texa...

Fossils of a giant tortoise, a ground sloth, a lion-sized armadillo relative ca...