Argentinean scientists presented on Thursday (August 11) the first armoured, two-legged South American dinosaur, a species that lived in Patagonia around 100 million years ago.
Travelling 500 million light-years in just a matter of seconds, this incredible new video zooms through space to reveal the spectacular Cartwheel Galaxy as captured by the James Webb telescope. The … [+7232 chars]
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Naturalists Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin both presented the theory of evolution at the same time in 1858. They thus changed both the course of biology and how we understand the natural wo… [+8180 chars]
Australian scientists are confident they have unearthed strong evidence that the Earth's continents were formed by the impact of massive meteorites more than 3 billion years ago. Their findings, publ… [+1503 chars]
A wild experiment involving a light plane, the Swiss Alps and a sinister looking moth from a horror film has shed new light on one of nature's enduring mysteries. The death's-head hawkmoth had an un… [+2598 chars]
More than 5,000 planets exist beyond our solar system, according to NASA, and this week astronomers announced they may have discovered the youngest one so far. Scientists using the Atacama Large Mil… [+3083 chars]
NASAs most powerful rocket is nearly ready to send an uncrewed Orion capsule on a 42-day journey to the Moon and back, but this deceptively straightforward plan involves a ton of moving parts includi… [+13251 chars]
The heart of the Etruscan shrew, one of the worlds smallest mammals, beats incredibly fast up to 1,500 times per minute, or 25 times per second. The human heart, in comparison, is sluggish, beating o… [+9855 chars]
Deflecting an asteroid such as Bennu, which has a small chance of hitting Earth in about a century and a half, could require multiple small impacts from some sort of massive human-made deflection dev… [+4015 chars]
Naturalists Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin both presented the theory of evolution at the same time in 1858. They thus changed both the course of biology and how we understand the natural wo… [+8180 chars]
AWRI research manager Dr Anthony Borneman and the studys lead author said it was a proof of concept that entirely new chromosomes can be built for specific industrial purposes. Unique genomic sequen… [+1348 chars]
