A pint-size whale that lived 41 million years ago in what is now Egypt was the smallest of its kind…
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As Greece announced the restrictions, firefighters were still battling wildfires west of Athens. The world has been buffeted by fires,…
Alligators in Florida help other life thriveShutterstock/SunflowerMomma Alligators living in Florida marshes create nutrient-rich hotspots that help some algae, plants…
Maritime trade at-risk. a, Cross-border downtime risk for import flows of countries. b, Same as a but for exports. c,…
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has modeled the early impact history of Venus to explain how Earth’s sister planet has…
Trans-Tasman research collaborators from Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington’s Ferrier Research Institute and the Malaghan Institute of…
Beneath the varnish of flashing lights and free cocktails, casinos stand on a bedrock of mathematics, engineered to slowly bleed…
A catalyst using a single or just a few palladium atoms removed 90% of unburned methane from natural gas engine…
Gastrulation, the process where an embryo reorganizes itself from a hollow sphere into a multilayered structure, is considered a “black…
Sabertooth cats make up a diverse group of long-toothed predators that roamed Africa around 6-7 million years ago, around the…
Muons continue to confound physicists. These unstable subatomic particles are much like familiar electrons, only with 200 times the mass…
The Himalayas include the world’s tallest mountains. (Image credit: Inigo Cia via Getty Images)The Himalayas, which include the world’s tallest…
Female killer whales live up to ninety years in the wild, and most live an average of twenty-two years after…
Architecture of the ultrafast high FoV metasurface lidar. (a) Emissions and scanning modules of the lidar. (b) SEM image of…
Human skin, hair, and eyes come in a huge variety of colors, but until now, scientists have only known a…
For the first time, researchers have observed “quantum superchemistry” in the lab. Long theorized but never before seen, quantum superchemistry is…
Distribution and sampling sites for Z. marina and their widely varying genetic diversity. a, Green areas indicate the presence of…
An automated robot gardener has shown its nurturing side by matching humans in trials of growing vegetables – and it…
Temnothorax nylanderi ants may benefit from a tapeworm infectionthatmacroguy/Shutterstock Ants infected with a tapeworm live several times longer than usual.…
Credit: Trinity College Dublin Approximately 99.9% of fish and shark species are “cold-blooded,” meaning their body tissues generally match the…
A single human cell teems with as many 100,000 different proteins. Actin is one of the most abundant and essential…
An elusive “demon” particle has been observed inside a superconductor nearly 70 years after it was first predicted. Its discovery…
Approximately 99.9% of fish and shark species are “cold-blooded,” meaning their body tissues generally match the temperature of the water…
JWST’s view of the galaxy JADES-GS+53.18343-27.79097NASA, ESA, CSA, JADES Collaboration Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Wildfires, pushed by…
The Chimané people have provided insights into the power of number wordsREUTERS/David Mercado LAST February, amid the fjords of southern…
Female zebrafish stock up their eggs with a supply of a compound that acts as a sunscreenGrigorev Mikhail/Shutterstock Zebrafish eggs…
The giant water strider (Gigantometra gigas) and its habitat.A researcher (a) observing giant water striders (Gigantometra gigas, b) in their…
Flexible spheres of the biomolecule chitosan, made from shrimp waste, can be used for catalysts that generate hydrogen gas from…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Increasingly divisive messages about science have led some people to see scientists as a group that…