Science

Tiny Bacteria in the Fog May Be Helping Clean the Air

A study of radiation fog events over Pennsylvania has found that bacteria livin...

Hidden Rift beneath Zambia May Be Tearing Africa Apart

Unusual gases rising from geothermal springs within the Kafue Rift of Zambia su...

Rare New Zealand Penguins Are Three Distinct Subspecies...

For decades, scientists treated the yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) ...

Duplicated Genomes Helped Flowering Plants Survive End-...

A new analysis of 470 flowering plant species finds that whole-genome duplicati...

New Species of Giant Long-Necked Dinosaur Identified in...

Fossils unearthed on a remote Argentine ranch belong to a new genus and species...

Scientists Build ‘Mind-Reading’ Hearing System for Nois...

A team of U.S. researchers has demonstrated, for the first time in human trials...

Dinosaurs May Have Fed Their Young a Special Diet, Stud...

An analysis of wear on the fossilized teeth of the hadrosaurian dinosaur Maiasa...

Gentoo Penguins Aren’t One Species After All

Genetic evidence suggests the familiar seabird is actually four separate specie...

Webb Peers into Brilliant Heart of Messier 77

New images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope capture the barred ...

Paleontologists Reconstruct Ecology of Archaeopteryx

A comprehensive new review by Field Museum of Natural History paleontologists d...

Researchers Create Detailed Map of Smell Receptors in M...

By mapping millions of smell-sensing neurons in mice, scientists discovered pre...

Garlic Compound May Hold Clue to Slowing Muscle Aging

Researchers in Japan say S-1-propenyl-L-cysteine, a molecule found in aged garl...

Giant Squid DNA Found in Deep Canyons off Australia

Using environmental DNA (eDNA) collected from waters more than 4 km deep off We...

New Species of Fossil Koala Found in Museum Drawer

Long-overlooked fossils in the Western Australian Museum collection have been i...

Space Junk Falls Faster When Sun Heats Up, New Study Finds

New research shows that surges in solar activity can accelerate the descent of ...

Ancient Bite Marks Suggest Tyrannosaurs Were Not Just H...

New research led by Aarhus University paleontologists overturns the image of ty...