Science

Earth’s Building Blocks Came from Close to Home, Planet...

A new analysis of isotopic signatures across planets and meteorite parent bodie...

2,400-Year-Old Iron-Smelting Workshop Unearthed in Senegal

Excavations at the archaeological site of Didé West 1 in eastern Senegal have u...

Chimpanzee’s Drum Solo Offers Clues to Origins of Music

Researchers who analyzed dozens of spontaneous performances by a captive male c...

Galapagos Lava Heron is Distinct Bird Species, New Stud...

The Galápagos lava heron, a small heron that stalks the lava-strewn shores of t...

Researchers Discover Tasmanian Tiger and Tasmanian Devi...

Both the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and the Tasmanian devil (Sar...

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...