Traditionally, when people were coming up with hypotheses about how animals function, a lot of the time they never even looked at the living animal; they would just pull bones out of a drawer, said M… [+1086 chars]
Diamantinasaurus matildae AODF 2298 (AODL 127) tooth (possibly from the same individual as AODF 836). (ao) Right upper tooth in mesial (a,b), mesiolabial (c), labial (d), distolabial (e,f), distal (g… [+3096 chars]
A team of astronomers have discovered a mysterious short-duration astronomical event, or transient, that is as bright as a superluminous supernova, but evolving much faster, reports a study in The As… [+5140 chars]
In Europe, this moon is often called the hay moon for the haymaking season, while for space enthusiasts, it's called Apollo 11 after the July 16 launch date. Here, the lunar spectacle rises over the… [+103 chars]
Alarming stories from Antarctica are now more frequent than ever; the ice surface is melting, floating ice shelves are collapsing and glaciers are flowing faster into the ocean. Antarctica will be t… [+6011 chars]
Scientists have unearthed a set of teeth from a giant herbivorous dinosaur in an "exceptionally rare" find at Winton. It's the latest big find from the Winton Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of N… [+1972 chars]
A Columbia Engineering team has created a robot that is able to learn a model of its entire body from scratch. In a nutshell, the robot created a kinematic model of itself and used it to plan motion… [+3089 chars]
Some of the most infamous drivers of cancer are mutations in RAS genes, which lead to tumor growth in about a quarter of all cancer patients. Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and … [+6581 chars]
'We do not live by bread alone, especially in these times,' says Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of Vatican Observatory This image released by NASA on July 12 from the James Webb Space Telescope (… [+2739 chars]
What happens when a star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole? The obvious story is that it gets sucked in, never to be seen again. Some of its material gets superheated on the way in and t… [+4980 chars]
A team of astronomers recently detected a fast radio burst that persists about 1,000 times longer than the average burst and has a clear periodic pattern. The radio burst is an eclectic new addition … [+3259 chars]
NASA's Mars helicopter is taking a break from its groundbreaking operations on the surface of the Red Planet. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, which manages Ingenuity'… [+2802 chars]
