Study Shows 300,000-Year-Old South African Hominin Ate a Lot of Dust
Homo naledi’s relatively taller and more wear-resistant molars enabled it to have a much more abrasive diet than other South African hominins. This is the…
Homo naledi’s relatively taller and more wear-resistant molars enabled it to have a much more abrasive diet than other South African hominins. This is the…
A new U of T Scarborough study has found that when it comes to fuel efficiency, bigger is better for hummingbirds. “In animals body size…
The unique Australian approach of creating quantum bits from precisely positioned individual atoms in silicon is reaping major rewards, with UNSW Sydney-led scientists showing for…
New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create this stunning image showing a web of filaments…
NASA is looking at how the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway can create value for both robotic and human exploration in deep space. In late 2017, the…
Want to get the hottest ticket this summer without standing in line? NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names online to…
It’s hard to believe that a single material can be described by as many superlatives as graphene can. Since its discovery in 2004, scientists have…
Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a vast, complex dust structure, about 150 billion miles (240 billion kilometers) across, enveloping the young…
A team from EPFL and NCCR Marvel has identified more than 1,000 materials with a particularly interesting 2D structure. Their research, which made the cover…
Ancient microbes may have been producing oxygen through photosynthesis a billion years earlier than we thought, which means oxygen was available for living organisms very…
Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast have led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery that magnetic waves crashing through the Sun may be key to…
Comets made up of two lobes, such as 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, visited by the Rosetta spacecraft, are produced when the debris resulting from a destructive collision between…
Permafrost in the coldest northern Arctic — formerly thought to be at least temporarily shielded from global warming by its extreme environment — will thaw…
Catching a bouncing ball or hitting a ball with a racket requires estimating when the ball will arrive. Neuroscientists have long thought that the brain…
As cancer cells continuously mutate their DNA, they also produce proteins that are altered from their normal counterparts by small changes in their peptide sequences….
Scientists have found a new way to work with heterogeneous catalysts, which are key chemical drivers in the development of energy technology and the production…
ESA’s Integral space observatory has witnessed a rare event: the moment that winds emitted by a swollen red giant star revived its slow-spinning companion, the…
In this image, NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft sees Saturn and its rings through a haze of Sun glare on the camera lens. If you could travel…