For decades, paleontologists have debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like modern mammals and birds, or cold-blooded, like modern reptiles. Knowing whether dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blood… [+9563 chars]
Mice use a specific neural pathway to detect shadows, and it can detect just about the dimmest shadows possible, according to new research from Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. The hu… [+4041 chars]
A 390 million-year-old, fish-like creature with four limbs is probably not who you'd expect to find in your family tree. But a new study has shown that the creature, called Palaeospondylus gunni, c… [+6877 chars]
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweep… [+5657 chars]
Science bears a great responsibility and we have seen it above all in the years of the epidemic: it must know how to disseminate without belittling it. It does not admit that one suddenly becomes an … [+2375 chars]
SpaceX will launch a batch of small satellites to orbit and land the returning rocket today (May 25), and you can watch the action live. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from C… [+2017 chars]
A 390 million-year-old, fish-like creature with four limbs is probably not who you'd expect to find in your family tree. But a new study has shown that the creature, called Palaeospondylus gunni, c… [+6877 chars]
This Hubble image captures a set of galaxies that are unusual because they seem not to have dark matter.Credit: NASA/ESA/P. van Dokkum, Yale Univ. Galaxies without dark matter baffle astronomers Sc… [+3891 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope imaged the elliptical galaxy NGC 474, which is located approximately 100 million light-years from Earth and is 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way. (Image credit: NASA, ESA… [+2092 chars]
Youve probably heard of many diseases and health problems that befall humanoids, but there are some strange syndromes out there that you probably arent familiar with. How many of these unusual medica… [+6022 chars]
image: In an effort to provide an environmentally friendly and low-waste alternative, researchers at MIT have pioneered a tunable technique to generate wood-like plant material in a lab.view more C… [+7109 chars]
NASA: "Youve heard of sharknado, now get ready for sharkcano." Sharkcanos Revenge As if we needed anything else to worry about, a Pacific underwater volcano thats home to a bunch of sharks has erup… [+1684 chars]
