The opening of the ice-free corridor that linked Beringia to the North American interior happened potentially thousands of years after the first human migrations to the continent, according to new ev… [+7438 chars]
Xing Xu and Shundong Bi from the Centre for Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology at Yunnan University, along with colleagues, recently recovered a partial skull, mandible, the forelimbs and hindlimbs, and… [+3925 chars]
Mon, 03/21/2022 - 11:17am | By: Ivonne Kawas Dr. Sara Seager, a pioneer in the vast world of exoplanets, will be the featured keynote speaker for the Fifth Annual Grayson H. and Jane Dishong Ray… [+3276 chars]
Humankind has always been looking for an answer to the question of how life began and coming up with different theories on the origin of life. But now for almost two centuries, Darwin's theory of evo… [+3388 chars]
China’s Tianwen-1 lander and Zhurong rover touched down on the Martian plain Utopia Planitia on May 14, 2021 after spending about three months orbiting the Red Planet. While the Chinese Space Agency … [+3227 chars]
A research team led by Prof. Chen Ping and Associate Prof. Liu Lin from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Associate Prof.… [+2045 chars]
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WRIC) NASA launched a sounding rocket from their Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Monday night. The two-stage suborbital-sounding rocket was scheduled for launch March, 21 be… [+1349 chars]
A team of researchers led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) of Barcelona and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has revealed the distribution and mercury degradation capacities … [+4797 chars]
Russia has been the target of extensive economic sanctions in the weeks since its invasion of Ukraine, but Moscow’s space program has been largely unaffected until now. The European Space Agency (ESA… [+2427 chars]
It’s called HiRISE, or High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, and it’s the camera installed on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA satellite orbiting Mars. Recently, this probe approached D… [+1244 chars]
For the first time, physicists have confirmed a weird quantum phenomenon in which tiny particles, when nudged out of place, will snap right back to where they came from. The strange behavior, called… [+6880 chars]
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was a significant milestone: the very first powered, controlled flight in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars and, in fact, the first such flight in any world beyon… [+3761 chars]