Paleontologists have described a new species of pachypleurosaur from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China. The holotype of Dianmeisaurus mutaensis from the Guanling Formation, China: (A) the skeleton in dorsal…
Polar vortices are present in planetary atmospheres, from the Earth-like rocky planets to Jupiter- and Saturn-like gas giants. However, not much is known about their existence and characteristics on our…
Skiphosoura bavarica, a species of pterosaur that lived around 149 million years ago in what is now southern Germany, bridges the gaps between the early monofenestratan pterosaurs and the later…
It’s not easy being green–or blue, or purple, or orange–at least not if you’re an octopus. Cephalopods are well-known for their incredible ability to camouflage and communicate via their rapidly…
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Bes is featured in the “Myth of the Solar Eye,” in which he tricks the goddess, Hathor. Credit: Scientific Reports One of the ancient Egyptian pantheon’s most celebrated deities was…
Anthocyanins protect seeds in space After exposure to space outside the International Space Station, purple-pigmented rice seeds rich in anthocyanin had higher germination rates than non-pigmented white rice seeds. This…
An international team of researchers has described a new species of miniaturized gecko in the genus Pseudogonatodes from the Peninsula de Paria in northeastern Venezuela. Pseudogonatodes fuscofortunatus. Image credit: Schargel…
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This article is part of series of Nautilus interviews with artists, you can read the rest here. Science and superstition have had a complicated relationship throughout history, and artist and…
NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope of the peculiar, edge-on spiral galaxy UGC 10043. This Hubble image shows UGC 10043, a peculiar spiral galaxy…
Picture this: You’re about to give an important presentation at work. As you wait for your turn, your mind floods with thoughts like “I’m not good enough,” “I’ll probably mess…
Imagine a thread so thin it’s invisible to the naked eye but packed with the mass of thousands of stars. This isn’t science fiction—it’s the theoretical description of cosmic strings,…
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The Windows Package Manager is quite well hidden. Image: DepositPhotos While Windows comes with plenty of apps out of the box, the real fun starts when you start installing third-party…
AI-based technologies are rapidly learning to see, converse, calculate and create. One thing they still don’t do well, however, is measure or “feel” surfaces — a purely mechanical function. “AI…
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“Shake It Off!” Honorable mention, Action. Credit: Moa Näslund / Dog Photography Awards Did you know that dogs can probably smell your stress? Or that our canine buddies likely…
Strange New Worlds – Kepler’s Legacy With Dr. Jason Steffen – YouTube Watch On On Episode 137 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr.…