Shuvuuia: Extraordinary Dinosaurs That Hunted in the Dark
The tiny desert-living dinosaur Shuvuuia had extraordinary vision and owl-like hearing for nocturnal life in the Mongolian desert. Today’s 10,000 species of birds live in…
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240-Million-Year-Old Ichthyosaur – Besanosaurus – Was an 26 Foot Long Marine Snapper
Paleontologists working in museum collections in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany have identified five additional specimens of a 240-million-year-old ichthyosaur, named Besanosaurus leptorhynchus, which was previously…
Flat Pasta Developed That Morphs Into Shape When Cooked
Flat-packed noodles create more sustainable packaging, transportation and storage. People love pasta for its shapes — from tubes of penne and rigatoni to spirals of…
Africa’s Oldest Human Burial Site Uncovered: 78,000-Year-Old Remains Reveal How Stone Age Populations Interacted With the Dead
Dating to 78,000 years ago, the burial was found by archaeologists in Panga ya Saidi, a cave site on the Kenyan coast. Despite being home…
No! Loan Applications Processed Around Midday Are More Likely to Be Rejected
Bank credit officers are more likely to approve loan applications earlier and later in the day, while ‘decision fatigue’ around midday is associated with defaulting…
200-Year-Old Poop Shows Rural Wealthy Elites in New England Had Parasitic Infections
Study finds parasites in fecal samples from the 1830s-1840s in privy on Dartmouth’s campus. In the early 19th century in North America, parasitic infections were…
Plants and Insects Threatened by Increasing Pesticide Toxicity
A group of scientists from the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, has shown that for plants and insects the applied pesticide toxicity in agriculture has substantially…
Extraordinary Species Diversity Within a 14.7 Million-Year-Old Tropical Rainforest and Sheds Light on Evolution
Newly Discovered Miocene Biome Sheds Light on Rainforest Evolution An international research group led by Prof. WANG Bo and Prof. SHI Gongle from the Nanjing…
Artificial Intelligence Helps Crack the Code of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered some seventy years ago, are famous for containing the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and many hitherto…
Nuclear DNA From Cave Sediments Helps Unlock Ancient Human History
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in extracting and analyzing Neandertal chromosomal DNA preserved in cave sediments. The field of ancient DNA has revealed…
Skeletal Remains Show Cancer Rates in Medieval Britain 10x Higher Than Previously Thought
The first study to use x-rays and CT scans to detect evidence of cancer among the skeletal remains of a pre-industrial population suggests that between…
First Human Inhabitants of Australia Followed “Superhighways” Across the Continent
The best path across the desert is rarely the straightest. For the first human inhabitants of Sahul — the super-continent that underlies modern Australia and…
Modern Human-Like Brains Evolved Long After Earliest Humans First Dispersed From Africa
Modern human-like brains evolved comparatively late in the genus Homo and long after the earliest humans first dispersed from Africa, according to a new study….
How and Why Humans Became the Best Throwers on the Planet
Pitchers’ fastballs are getting better and better. From 2008 to 2020, the average speeds of all major league baseball pitches combined rose by between 1.5…
Climate Change Is Making It Harder to Get a Good Cup of Specialty Coffee
Ethiopia may produce less specialty coffee and more rather bland tasting varieties in the future. This is the result of a new study by an…
Fires in the Far East Captured From Space
Many farmers in northeastern China and eastern Russia use fire to clear fields and get them ready for planting. With millions of hectares of corn,…
Tracking COVID-19 in Our Dust May Help Predict Outbreaks
Finding does not mean virus can be transmitted via dust. A study done in rooms where COVID-19 patients were isolated shows that the virus’s RNA…
Next-Generation Stable Pop-Up Structures Inspired by Origami
Next-generation inflatable buildings maintain their shape without constant input of pressure. In 2016, an inflatable arch wreaked havoc at the Tour de France bicycle race…