Article body copy Its nearly impossible to know how extinct animals behaved; theres no Jurassic Park where we can watch them hunt or mate or evade predators. But a developing technique is giving res… [+5766 chars]
Bioscientists from Durham University, UK and Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany have predicted in their latest research that bird communities will change worldwide in 2080 … [+4150 chars]
This week's peak of the Perseids meteor shower will be blocked by a bright full Moon. NASA/JPL Have you ever gone out of your way to plan a meteor shower event? The annual Perseid meteor shower … [+3228 chars]
In a recent study submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a collaborative research team has utilized the first set of data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discoveri… [+4576 chars]
Scientists have now glimpsed the distribution of dark matter around galaxies 12 billion years ago, marking the earliest detection of the mysterious substance yet. In a new study, published Monday i… [+2325 chars]
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth's crust,… [+3585 chars]
THE WORLD's largest volcano has been observed changing internally as blazing magma shifts around. The Mauna Loa volcano is more than five miles tall and researchers know just what it'll take to set … [+2288 chars]
Countless studies have sought to quantify various aspects of human impacts on the planet, but sorting through that data to get answers about the effect we're actually having can be a challenge for re… [+2643 chars]
A team of researchers led by the University of Texas at Austin has recently found in New Mexico a three-foot-tall pile of mammoth bones dating back to 36,250 – 38,900 years ago, together with evidenc… [+2172 chars]
Phytoplankton need light and nutrients to grow. The microscopic algae rarely find both at the same time in sufficient quantities in the ocean. In the upper water layers, they usually lack nutrients, … [+5515 chars]
Its a half-peeled banana? Nope. A semi-melted water gun? Not even close. (Courtesy: DeepCCZ expedition, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation/NOAA) It's a sea cucumber - a marine animal characterize… [+1705 chars]
Over 140 documents from notebooks and reports that feature first-person accounts of glacial landscapes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are now available to the public through the CU Digit… [+3603 chars]
