For elite runners competing in long-distance races, every second counts. So when Nike introduced “advanced shoe technology” in 2017, questions arose about whether the new…
Solar, wind, and other alternative energy sources have incredible potential to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and yield environmental and economic benefits. But many…
Chance finds dating back 9000 years tell new story of Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire. Chance finds of prehistoric stone tools and fragments of pottery, picked up…
Over their entire late-Cretaceous reign, the total number of Tyrannosaurus rex that ever lived on Earth was roughly 2.5 billion individuals, according to a new…
Scientists have for the first time captured the complex dynamics of particle movement in granular materials, helping to explain why mixed nuts often see the…
Boston University environmental expert says the Nintendo racing game has important lessons for social and economic programs that could benefit the world’s developing regions. Many…
A single footprint left by a cat-sized dinosaur around 100 million years ago has been discovered in China by an international team of paleontologists. University…
Dog bones dated between circa 4200 and 4000 BCE discovered. A team of archaeologists in north-west the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has uncovered the earliest…
The social science literature has long viewed homophily and network-based job recruitment as crucial drivers of segregation. Researchers at Linköping University and ESADE, Ramon…
Analysis of what’s known about the dinosaur leads to conclusion there were 2.5 billion over time. How many Tyrannosaurus rexes roamed North America during the…
A new 160-million-year-old arboreal pterosaur species, dubbed ‘Monkeydactyl’, has the oldest true opposed thumb — a novel structure previously not known in pterosaurs. An international…
The first in-depth look at the human ability to decode the range of emotions tied to the acoustic cues of screams. People are adept at…
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting,…
Misinformation in public debates about scientific issues such as vaccinations and climate change can be found all over the internet, especially on social media. In…
Researchers use 3-D-printed models to explore fractal-like interior shell patterns. Ammonoids, ancestors of today’s octopus, squid, and cuttlefish, bobbed and jetted their way through the…
Gray wolves are among the largest predators to have survived the extinction at the end of the last ice age around 11,700 years ago. Today,…
The human brain as we know it today is relatively young. It evolved about 1.7 million years ago when the culture of stone tools in…
The results indicate masks and proper ventilation may be key to allowing more capacity in schools, businesses, and other indoor areas. A new study from…