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A group of fossils of elasmosaurs — some of the most famous in North America — have just been formally identified as belonging to a “very odd” new genus of…
Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation. Their results, published today in Nature, show that this radiation…
Sharks have been evolving for more than 450 million years, developing skeletons not from bone, but from a tough, mineralized form of cartilage. These creatures are more than just fast…
On an island off the coast of Panama lives a population of wild primates with a remarkable culture. White-faced capuchins on Jicarón Island in Coiba National Park use stone tools;…
A study by Dartmouth researchers proposes a new theory about the origin of dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. The…
AI shows promise detecting dyslexia and dysgraphia from what children write on paper and tablets A new University at Buffalo-led study outlines how artificial intelligence-powered handwriting analysis may serve as…
University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of measuring the universe’s gravitational wave background — the constant flow of waves that churn through the cosmos,…
Researchers at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology recently connected their campuses with an experimental quantum communications network using two optical fibers. In a new paper published…
Is it extinct, or does it still roam somewhere deep in the misty highland forests of Vietnam and Laos? It has been nicknamed the Asian unicorn due to its almost…
A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra’s oldest challenge — solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, such as…
Meet “Zangenite,” a hollow crystal structure named after the NYU grad student who found it Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don’t always grow in a straightforward way.…
An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and…
Robotic arms and 3D printing gantries can already be found on construction sites — albeit mostly as heavy, permanently installed systems on the ground. They quickly reach their limits on…
Visit ancient Mars — a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to feed hundreds of lakes. A new study from…
The latest development in the search for life elsewhere – Professor Nikku Madhusudhan from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge explains recent observations with the James Webb…
Imagine a Slushee™ composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs, dubbed “mushballs,” raining down like hailstones during a thunderstorm,…
Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools — it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However,…
Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our Sun) lurk at the centre of most galaxies, their very nature makes them difficult to spot…
The MICrONS Project is considered the most complicated neuroscience experiment ever attempted From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach…
Small, remote islands were long thought to have been the last frontiers of pristine natural systems. Humans are not thought to have been able to reach or inhabit these environments…
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and dunes of soot-like “sand,” its topography has long fascinated scientists…
Tiny device can be inserted with a syringe, then dissolves after it’s no longer needed Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the…
Discovery has potential to transform energy use by improving superconductors Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals — materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and…
Imagine a robot that can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one…
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Jane Goodall Institute in…