Scientists at Goethe University and University of Bristol (UK) find traces of beeswax in prehistoric pottery of the West African Nok culture. Before sugar cane…
Scientists have identified the fossil of a giant mosasaur in Morocco that grew up to eight meters long. A giant mosasaur from the end of…
With a living descendant’s DNA sample, a team of researchers have identified the remains of John Gregory, engineer aboard HMS Erebus. The identity of the…
Recognized for contributions in number theory, algebraic geometry, topology. The voicemail was extremely unusual. It was from the director of the National Science Foundation, who…
Australian airports are ideal hosts for large-scale solar installations. A new study has found Australia’s government-owned airports could produce enough electricity to power 136,000 homes,…
Bamboo cricket bats are stronger, offer a better ‘sweet spot’ and deliver more energy to the ball than those made from traditional willow, tests conducted…
Fermilab is known for cutting-edge experiments, particle physics research—and an adorable herd of bison. On April 26, baby bison season officially began at the lab….
Scientists are certain that dark matter exists. Yet, after more than 50 years of searching, they still have no direct evidence for the mysterious substance….
Study explores the mechanical properties of these materials as they evolve from elastic gels to glassy solids. Researchers at MIT have developed a new method…
Computational model demonstrates similarity in how humans and insects learn about their surroundings. Even the humble fruit fly craves a dose of the happy hormone,…
Study finds that beneficial brain regions, including those involved in movement, underlie successful kicks and overthinking may be a factor in missed kicks. Are penalty…
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…
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-packed noodles create more sustainable packaging, transportation and storage. People love pasta for its shapes — from tubes of penne and rigatoni to spirals of…
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…
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…
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…
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…