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An illustration of the newly described Avisaurus darwini, whose unusual foot bones indicate that it was one of the earliest birds of prey known to science, shown here carrying a …

People tend to assume that they have all of the information that they need to make a decision or support their position–even if they don’t Deposit Photos Getting into arguments …

The island of Sicily is considered to be among the first occupied by humans in the European Upper Paleolithic. Studies to understand early occupation of the island are mostly concentrated …

Moving through the world as a microorganism isn’t always easy. Bacteria and other small creatures squirming inside bodies often have to propel themselves through thick, viscous environments. For a human, …

Named Alasemenia tria, the new specimen from the Wutong Formation in the Chinese province of Anhui dates back to the Famennian stage of the the Late Devonian epoch, making it …

Astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) have investigated the Taurid resonant swarm, a large interplanetary system that contains comet 2P/Encke, several meteoroid streams, and possibly a number of near-Earth …

Winners of the Nobel prize receive a medal zhencong chen / Alamy It is that time of year when congratulations are in order, as some of the best minds in …

The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei — the center part of atoms, which …

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 42, October 2024. Source : National Academy of Sciences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 42, October 2024. Source : National Academy of Sciences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 42, October 2024. Source : National Academy of Sciences

A team of biologists in Israel has grown an extinct — or at least extirpated — tree species of the myrrh genus Commiphora from an ancient seed found in the …

Engineered heart tissues in space showed impairments that led to increased arrhythmias and loss of muscle strength, changes similar to cardiac aging. This finding suggests that the engineered tissues, essentially an automated …

Carbonate minerals are of particular interest in paleoenvironmental research as they are an integral part of the carbon and water cycles, both of which are relevant to habitability. In new …

A team of researchers at CSIRO has decoded the genome of the spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus), a critically endangered species of marine fish endemic to Tasmania. The spotted handfish (Brachionichthys …

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REBELS-25 existed as early as 700 million years after Big Bang, according to a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This image shows the galaxy …

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