The thought of reviving the foregone dodo is no longer one for the birds. The recent discovery of a fantastic specimen of dodo DNA was the last clue needed to complete the extinct birds genome, anno… [+2980 chars]
How do you bring together two molecules that positively repel each other? A Northwestern University-led research team has developed a simple and versatile solution: Introduce an electron with a jolt … [+4346 chars]
The full "Worm Moon" rising in Cardiff, Wales on Friday, March 18, 2022. Jamie Carter Did you see the full Worm Moon this week? The third and final full Moon of winter, the Worm Moon comes just … [+5610 chars]
Researchers led by the University of Bristol show that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximizing their strength and their speed. Almost all vertebrates are… [+3630 chars]
From anxiety to depression, loneliness is known to have a range of unpleasant symptoms in humans. And now a new study has shown that loneliness is just as problematic for elephants, who show more si… [+4885 chars]
Wendy K. Caldwell is a mathematician/planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is the lead author of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Psyche research and a member of the DART Investi… [+8487 chars]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — NASA's new megarocket for its Artemis 1 moon mission is on the launch pad for the first time. On Thursday (March 17) at 5:47 p.m. EDT (2147 GMT), with the largest doors in … [+4623 chars]
In physics, simplicity is beauty. Chinese astronomers, using devices including the world's most sensitive radio telescope, identified a single parameter to describe the mysterious repeating fast radi… [+2149 chars]
A potential cornucopia of neuroactive compounds, which might yield clues to the design of future psychiatric and neurological drugs, has become more accessible to synthetic chemists, thanks to new wo… [+3243 chars]
A mysterious, repeating radio signal in the Milky Way that baffled astronomers could be an object so rare, only one other has ever been tentatively identified. According to a paper by astrophysicist… [+4549 chars]
Saturn will join Venus and Mars in the early morning sky this month, and here’s how you can catch the trio in action. The ringed planet has been slowly moving toward Venus and Mars since early Marc… [+2150 chars]
Artificial intelligence has already enabled humans to chat with robots like Alexa and Siri that were inspired by science fiction. Some of its newest creations take a page from a hero of childrens lit… [+512 chars]
