New 3D computer simulations from ETH Zurich show that young rift flanks on Venus stay tall and steep, while older ones flatten out over time. […]
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Did Early Snakes Burrow, Swim or Crawl? 80‑Million‑Year‑Old Fossil Suggests: All Three
Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest snakes lived and complicating the long-running debate […]
Juno’s Microwave Vision Peers beneath Surface of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io
New data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show temperatures spike more than 20 degrees Celsius just a few meters under Io’s surface, providing the first look […]
Fern-Fueled Wildfires Raged across Europe for Millennia during End-Triassic Mass Extinction
A 201-million-year-old climate catastrophe turned Europe into a landscape of fern savannahs that repeatedly caught fire, according to new research published in the journal Nature […]
Jurassic Pliosaur Liopleurodon Was Big, but Not as Big as Once Feared
Liopleurodon ferox is a short-necked marine reptile that patrolled the seas of what is now England and France some 163 million years ago. The post […]
Stone Tools from Armenian Cave Reveal Split Strategy for Survival 50,000 Years Ago
Ararat-1, a modest limestone cave that lies at an elevation of 1,034 m on the eastern flanks of the Ararat Depression in central Armenia, has […]
Space Weather May Warp Martian Weather during Dust Storms, Planetary Scientists Suggest
Planetary researchers have found the first evidence that bursts of energetic particles from the Sun could warm the lower atmosphere of Mars during massive dust […]
Hugs May Be an Ancient Peacekeeping Tool, Ape Study Suggests
In a new study of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus), scientists found that embraces, touches and other reassuring gestures before competition for food […]
Our Milky Way Galaxy Likely Underwent Disk Flip after Ancient Galactic Collision: Study
A head-on collision with another galaxy billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented the Milky Way’s disk, according to new supercomputer simulations that reveal […]
Small Sauropod Dinosaur from Jurassic Period Discovered in India
Paleontologists in India have unearthed a partial skeleton of a diminutive, previously unknown neosauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic rocks of Gujarat’s Kachchh Basin. The […]
Puzzling Near-Earth Asteroid Turns Out to Be Comet with Weak Tail
The near-Earth object (875163) 1998 SH2, which is currently classified as an asteroid, has revealed a hidden identity: it’s actually a comet in disguise, according to […]
3.5-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Japan Reveals Lost Lineage of Giant Salamanders
A new genus and species of cryptobranchid salamander that lived in lakes in Japan about 3.5 million years ago has been identified from three fossil […]
Oldest Known Male Gecko Found Preserved in Kachin Amber
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of ancient gecko found in two pieces of amber from the 99-million-year-old (mid-Cretaceous) amber deposits in Kachin […]
CERN Physicists Take New Look at Why Matter Beat Antimatter
Using the largest sample yet of particles called beauty mesons, physicists with the CMS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) refined a decades-old test […]
Moderate Coffee and Caffeine Intake Poses Little Heart Risk, and May Even Help
In a new review paper, Dr. Gregory Marcus from the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues analyzed decades of research on how caffeine — […]
Astronomers Find Omega Centauri’s First Stellar-Mass Black Hole
After decades of searching, astronomers have pinpointed the first of an estimated 10,000 stellar-mass black holes thought to lurk in Omega Centauri, the most massive […]
Researchers Challenge Long-Held Beliefs about Water, Spicy Food and Digestion
A new review of previous studies in the journal Appetite undercuts the popular belief that water fills you up at the table. The post Researchers […]
Dinosaurs May Have Been Wiped Out by ‘Oddball’ Space Rock
By analyzing nickel isotopes preserved in the 66-million-year-old debris left by the Chicxulub impact, researchers conclude that the asteroid responsible for Earth’s last mass extinction […]
385-Million-Year-Old Amber Found in China
Paleontologists in China have discovered what they say is the earliest confirmed pieces of amber ever found, a fossilized resin roughly 385 million years old […]
Potential Atmosphere Detected on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140b
Using spectral data from the Magellan Clay telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, astronomers detected helium escaping from LHS 1140b, a rocky exoplanet that orbits in […]