Science

Gigantic Prehistoric Dragonfly-Like Insects May Not Owe...

Long thought to be fueled by increased atmospheric oxygen concentration, enormo...

Physicists Find First Experimental Evidence of Elusive ...

By probing supercooled water with ultrafast lasers before it crystallizes, phys...

Triassic Coelacanths May Have Heard the Ocean with Thei...

An analysis of two 240-million-year-old coelacanth fossils suggests a bizarre s...

Early Miocene Fossil Fills Gap in Ape Family Tree

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of fossil ape that live...

Vitamin D Shows Promise in Resetting Immune System in I...

New research suggests that vitamin D supplements can reshape how the immune sys...

Ancient DNA Study Rewrites Origins of Europe’s First Dogs

Scientists have extracted and analyzed DNA from 216 canid remains, including 18...

Webb and Hubble Telescopes Capture Saturn in Unpreceden...

By combining infrared observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Teles...

New Species of Steamer Duck Discovered in Chile

In the cold, wave-battered channels off southern Chile, scientists have identif...

Two Species of Marsupials Thought Lost for 6,000 Years ...

In the remote rainforests of New Guinea’s Vogelkop Peninsula, scientists have s...

Two Protoplanets Emerge from Dusty Disk around Nearby Y...

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and VLT Interferometer (VLTI) in Chile, ...

Astronomers Find Second-Generation Star in Pictor II

PicII-503, a primordial star located in the >10-billion-year-old ultrafaint dwa...

CT Scans Solve Decades-Old Mystery of Triassic Cynodont

Known from a single skull discovered in South Africa in 1952, Cistecynodon parv...

Hubble Space Telescope Revisits Iconic Crab Nebula

By comparing new Hubble observations with images first taken in 1999, astronome...

VLT Zooms in on Nearby Triangulum Galaxy

A new close-up of the Triangulum galaxy, captured with ESO’s Very Large Telesco...

CERN Physicists Discover Heavier Cousin of Proton

Physicists from the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have ...

Earth’s Lithosphere was Already Segmented and Mobile 3....

By tracing magnetic signals preserved in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks in Western ...