It's the iris in Jupiter's large eyeball, spinning to stare ominously into space: the Great Red Spot, the largest and longest-lived storm in the entire Solar System. Mankind has watched…
Scientists have long debated why woolly mammoths, giant sloths and 44 other giant, plant-eating "megaherbivores" went extinct about 50,000 years ago.Some paleontologists, biologists, and others argue that drastic climate changes…
Prehistoric people hunted woolly mammoth. A growing body of research suggests that this species – and at least 46 other megaherbivore species – have been driven to extinction by humans.…
Researchers have identified a prehistoric marine reptile discovered in 1935 as a thalatosaurus, not a choristodera, using computed tomography and a new specimen. Reconstruction of Pachystropheus rhaeticusfigured next to a…
KAIST researchers, in collaboration with multiple institutions, have experimentally confirmed the three-dimensional vortex-shaped polarization distribution inside ferroelectric nanoparticles. Using atomic electron tomography, they mapped the atomic positions in the barium…
The early universe contained far fewer miniatures black holes than previously thought, making the origin of the missing matter in our cosmos even more of a mystery, a new study…
According to new observations from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST(. The discovery shows that planetary atmospheres can swell to remarkable amounts without resorting to esoteric theories of planet formation, astronomers…
A recent study has advanced the understanding of high-temperature superconductivity in "cuprates" using an improved Hubbard model, paving the way for potential technological breakthroughs and demonstrating the efficacy of classical…
Chemists at the University of Minnesota have synthesized a complex chemical compound that could revolutionize medicine, agriculture and electronics, overcoming a challenge that has persisted for more than a century.The…
About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the middle of a chaotic star system. Since the neighboring worlds are the same size and structure, it is…