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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. …