Egyptologist Discovers Mysterious Head of a Pharaoh
Swansea University Egyptology lecturer Dr Ken Griffin has found a depiction of one of the most famous pharaohs in history Hatshepsut (one of only a…
Science News
NASA Creates First Ever 3D Model of Melting Snowflake
NASA has produced the first three-dimensional numerical model of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere. Developed by scientist Jussi Leinonen of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in…
New Fossil Discovery Highlights Canada-Russia Connection 53 Million Years Ago
A new 53 million-year-old insect fossil called a scorpionfly discovered at B.C.’s McAbee fossil bed site bears a striking resemblance to fossils of the same…
Paleontologists Provide New Perspective on Triassic Period, Emergence of Dinosaurs
After a great mass extinction shook the world about 252 million years ago, animal life outside of the ocean began to take hold. The earliest…
Archaeologists Reveal Evidence of Hidden Populations in the Amazon
Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research…
New Linguistic Analyses Dates Dravidian Language Family
The origin of the Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 varieties spoken by 220 million people across southern and central India and surrounding countries,…
Kirigami Inspires Better Bandages for Deformable Regions of the Body
Cutting kirigami-style slits in stretchy films could make for bandages, heat pads, and wearable electronics that adhere to flexible surfaces. Scraped up knees and elbows…
Paleontologists Identify a New Species of Prehistoric Reptile, Colobops Noviportensis
Scientists have identified a new species of reptile from prehistoric Connecticut and, boy, does it have a mouth on it. Named Colobops noviportensis, the creature…
Weird Superconductor Leads Double Life
Understanding strontium titanate’s odd behavior will aid efforts to develop materials that conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at higher temperatures. Until about 50 years…
Scientists Mimic Neural Tissue in Next-Generation Soft Materials
U.S. Army-funded researchers at Brandeis University have discovered a process for engineering next-generation soft materials with embedded chemical networks that mimic the behavior of neural…
New Evidence of Early Human Innovation Pushes Back Evolutionary Timeline
An international collaboration, including the Natural History Museum of Utah at the University of Utah, has discovered that early humans in eastern Africa had—by about…
Chemical Engineers Develop a New Conductive Coating for Flexible Electronics
A team of researchers from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University have developed a mechanically robust conductive coating that can maintain performance under…
New Hydrogel Adhesive Seals Moving Tissues Even in the Presence of Blood
A Band-Aid adhesive bandage is an effective way to stop bleeding from skin wounds, but an equally viable option for internal bleeding does not yet…
Chemists Develop Nanostructures From Previously Impossible Material
How do you combine different elements in a crystal? At TU Wien, a method has now been developed for incorporating previously unattainably high proportions of…
Newly Discovered Prehistoric Bird Fossil Sheds Light on Avian Evolution
The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into the world in the Age of Dinosaurs. The…
Archaeologists Discover 1.6 Billion Years Old Fossilized Oxygen Bubbles
Take a good look at these photos: They show you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles, created by tiny microbes in what was once…
Biophysicists Design Nanofibrous Scaffolds for Heart Cells
Biophysicists from MIPT have studied the structure of a nanofibrous scaffold, as well as its interaction with rat cardiac cells. The study, which is part…
Nanostructure Increases Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion Efficiency by a Factor of Eleven
Polymeric carbon nitrides exhibit a catalytic effect in sunlight that can be used for the production of hydrogen from solar energy. However, the efficiency of…