Palaeobiologists from the University of Tübingen have described a previously unknown turtle species that lived in what is now Romania some 70 million years ago. The reptile, measuring 19 cm in length… [+3662 chars]
A gigantic sunspot the size of the Earth has been spotted in the atmosphere of the sun, providing solar scientists with fresh insight into activity on our star. The National Science Foundation's Ino… [+10215 chars]
Researchers from MIT and Harvard suggest that applying theories from cognitive science and educational psychology to the area of human-robot interaction can help humans build more accurate mental mod… [+6980 chars]
An infrared image of Saturn with an aurora visible at its south pole, taken by the Cassini ... [+] spacecraft. NASA, Cassini, VIMS Team, University of Arizona, University of Leicester, JPL, ASI Sat… [+2342 chars]
As the moon heads into southern summer the region around the south pole is better seen by LROC. One of the many goals of the LRO mission is to improve our cartographic knowledge of the moon. Credit: … [+2862 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animalsshort periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or formhave long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a… [+3149 chars]
Noah rode out his flood in an ark. Winnie-the-Pooh had an upside-down umbrella. Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), meanwhile, form floating rafts made up of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of in… [+5291 chars]
Mollusk shells at 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages indicate that environmental change may have driven the formation and abandonment of these coastal communities, according to a stud… [+3891 chars]
Forget boomers versus millennials the generation who really screwed us over was the one who lived about 4,000 years ago. Know why? Because they had mammoths, and we dont. But we could! At long last,… [+5150 chars]
Do two promising structural materials corrode at very high temperatures when in contact with "liquid metal fuel breeders" in fusion reactors? Researchers of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)… [+4114 chars]
The evolutionary relationships among grassesincluding important crop plants like wheat, rice, corn, and sugarcanehave been clarified in a new molecular study of the grass family tree. Having a clear … [+5388 chars]
Physicists in Australia have programmed a quantum computer half a world away to make, or at least simulate, a record-size time crystal—a system of quantum particles that locks into a perpetual cycle … [+5000 chars]
