These giant freshwater crabs could be your new Roman Empire.Archaeologists studying Trajan's Forum, a historic Roman ruin, in 2005 discovered an ancient type of cancer, Potamon fluviatile. The only freshwater…
Artist impressions of decorated sewn clothing in the Upper Paleolithic. Credit: Mariana Ariza A team of researchers led by an archaeologist from the University of Sydney are the first to…
Meteorite collisions pepper Mars at a rate up to 10 times more frequent than previously estimated, according to two new research papers that identify the seismic shock waves from those…
A device design inspired by a python tooth placed between tendon and bone greatly improves standard rotator cuff repair. Credit: Iden Kurtaliaj/Columbia Engineering Most people, when they think of pythons,…
Concept of closed-form angular psychographic imaging (APIC) and comparison between APIC and Fourier psychographic microscopy (FPM) reconstruction process. credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49126-y For hundreds of years, the clarity…
I would guess that almost any good astronomy book will contain a picture of what can best be described as a "smoke ring" in the sky. Others may call it…
Researchers investigated three mysterious objects in the early universe. Shown here are their color images, composed of three NIRCam filter strips aboard the James Webb Space Telescope. They are remarkably…
In 2016, scientists published paper with a bold claim: that the giraffe, first described as a species by the Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus in 1758, may actually have been four…
from Elizabeth A. Thomson, MIT Materials Research Laboratory June 28, 2024An artist's rendering of a newly discovered superhighway for electrons that can appear in rhombohedral graphene. "We've found a gold…
"All good things must come to an end." This saying is as true in space as it is on Earth.We know that stars, like everything else, must die. When they…