Science

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 ...

Democracy’s Roots Run Far Deeper than Ancient Greece, N...

Examining 31 ancient societies across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, researche...

Astronomers Create Catalogue of Habitable-Zone Rocky Ex...

Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers ...

New Species of Plant-Eating Dinosaur Unearthed in Korea

A new species of small plant-eating dinosaur has been identified from a partial...

Long Before Pottery, Children Shaped Clay to Tell Stories

A cache of 142 beads and pendants from five Natufian (15,000 to 11,650 years be...

Fungi Found to Trigger Ice Formation

A team of researchers from the United States and Germany has identified fungal ...

Hubble Captures Breakup of Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)

The breakup of C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telesco...

Neanderthals May Have Used Birch Tar as Natural Antibiotic

New experiments show that tar made from birch bark -- long known as a tool adhe...

Kepler-51d Challenges Theories of Planetary Formation

Kepler-51 is a young G-dwarf star hosting three super-puffs and one low-mass no...

Ornithologists Identify Cryptic New Bird Species in Japan

Genetic and acoustic evidence show that the rare Ijima’s leaf warbler (Phyllosc...

Oviraptors May Have Needed the Sun to Hatch Their Eggs

New experiments indicate bird-like oviraptorid dinosaurs could not fully warm t...

DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Aste...

Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173)...