A rhythmic mantle plume, like a "geological heartbeat," was discovered beneath Ethiopia at the Afar Depression, ripping the continent apart....
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life. Scientists report...
In the arid landscapes of what is now Brazil, new findings shed light on the ancient lives of sauropod dinosaurs. These massive creatures, known for t...
A new "optoexcitonic switch" already achieves state-of-the-art performance over current electronics and could serve as the basis for classical and qua...
This month, there’s one story on everybody’s minds. I’m speaking, of course, about the Iberian harvester ant queens who can clone ants of an ent...
"This forces us to rethink the starting conditions for our planet’s water system."...
A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a crystal-clear gravitationa...
Depending on where you smack a planet-threatening asteroid, it might ricochet back to Earth....
An understanding of the molecular mechanisms promoting the generation of immunoregulatory and tumour-promoting monocytes and macrophages is key to bre...
Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at most—only once every 100,000 ...
A remarkable 44,000-year-old wolf found in Siberia’s permafrost is giving scientists unprecedented insights into the Ice Age’s top predators....
Establishing antisense oligomers as versatile, non-genetic tools to silence phage mRNAs opens applications in basic research and biotechnology, as sho...
A rhynchocephalian skeleton around 3–7 million years older than the oldest currently known lepidosaur fossil provides important insight into the o...
Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals....
Amino acids possess a new and broad colloidal property: they stabilize patchy nanoscale colloids, such as proteins, by adsorbing onto their surfa...
It could make or break the species' future....
All I know is, I didn't break it....
Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been well-aware of the moon, but it turns out Earth also has some frequent temporary companions. These "quasi...
Extremophiles are a favorite tool of astrobiologists....