Cretaceous Period Sankofa Pyrenaica Fossilized Eggs Are Unusually Shaped
High in the Pyrenean mountains of Spain, paleontologists found hen-shaped dinosaur eggs sticking out of ancient sandstone. The eggs, which date back to 70 million…
High in the Pyrenean mountains of Spain, paleontologists found hen-shaped dinosaur eggs sticking out of ancient sandstone. The eggs, which date back to 70 million…
Haemaphysalis flava, a kind of tick, was observed under the intense rays of an electron scanning microscope and survived the experience. They may have just…
A newly discovered ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex was discovered recently in China. Yutyrannus huali was covered in feathers, was 30 feet (9 meters) long, and…
Ash was discovered in a South African cave, and this indicates that humans were cooking with fire one million years ago. This is the earliest…
New research pinpoints to certain mutations that may have helped the stickleback, a tiny armored fish, to evolve quickly between saltwater and freshwater forms. Since…
A three-week experiment is set to start on April 24th at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, in which electrons will…
An international team of scientists is starting a long-term campaign to measure the overall health of the ice atop Tibet and its surrounding mountains. This…
The world’s largest telescope will be the Square Kilometer Array, and when it starts peering into radio waves emanating from the skies, it will generate…
In Shark Bay, Australia, the male dolphins are well known to marine biologists for their messy social entanglements. These relationships are so unique, that they’re…
An eolian energy company formed out of MIT has tested its high-altitude wind turbine that floats above in windy skies like a blimp. Altaeros Energies…
Lasers beams have been used for the first time to trigger and divert lightning bolts. It was first postulated in the 1990s that lasers could…
The famous Dutch impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh was obsessed with sunflowers, until he died in 1890. His iconic paintings of sunflowers fetch millions of…
The discovery of the Burtele foot fossil is leading researchers to believe that there was more than one early hominin species during the time of…
Using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly telescope, new imagery shows solar tornadoes comprised of superheated gases as hot as 50,000 – 2,000,000 Kelvin on the surface…
Findings suggest that our own immune system may be working against us when it comes to protection from skin cancer. The scientists found that in…
Bacteria are everywhere and in much larger amounts than you may realize. A new study looks at how much a lone human presence affects the…
A newly published paper details the findings made by physicists while measuring the coherence and spin of excitons in a refrigerated system. The team discovered…
Authored by leading scientists at top institutions, the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) is a resource that joins deeply detailed cancer genome data with predictors…