A Fossil of a Bizarre Snake-Like Lizard Has Generated Controversy Beyond Its Identity
More than 120 million years ago in what is now modern Brazil, an ancient waterway was filled with all manner of strange creatures. These included…
More than 120 million years ago in what is now modern Brazil, an ancient waterway was filled with all manner of strange creatures. These included…
With around 256 million cases and more than 5 million deaths worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged scientists and those in the medical field. Researchers…
UC Davis Health infectious diseases expert answers common questions about Merck’s new COVID-19 treatment. A new COVID-19 treatment that could be given in the days…
Industrial fishing over the past century appears to have broken a law of nature. Surprising as it sounds, all life forms in the ocean, from…
Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the “telescope that ate astronomy.” It is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex…
Solid-solution organic crystals have been brought into the quest for superior photon upconversion materials, which transform presently wasted long-wavelength light into more useful shorter wavelength…
The chance that ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will encounter space debris during its upcoming Earth flyby is very, very low. However, the risk is not…
Our telescopes have never detected a black hole more massive than twenty times the mass of the Sun. Nevertheless, we now know of their existence…
The cluster of neurological symptoms associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19, suggests the virus can enter the brain and affect neural function….
A plane has a pilot. A bus has a driver. A train has a conductor. But who controls a Mars rover? During the last seven…
Columbia Engineers invent software-controlled robotic lasers that cook food with unparalleled precision, retaining more moisture, and creating an entirely new, customized way to cook a…
The five-ton Prichal docking module arrived at the International Space Station at 10:19 a.m. EST, propelled by a modified Russian Progress propulsion compartment. They docked…
Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45. Herbig-Haro objects are a rarely…
Imagine you’re at a picnic and just about to bite into your sandwich. Suddenly you spot a fly headed your way, homing in on your…
Blazing along at space-record speeds that would get it from Earth to the Moon in under an hour, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 10th…
Researchers are working on new ways to cure COVID-19 infections, using molecules that bind to three-dimensional folds in the virus’s genetic material. Credit: Martina Zafferani,…
Record-breaking spin rate for a confirmed white dwarf star is observed by University of Warwick-led astronomers Establishes the star as only the second magnetic propeller…
New approach solves a persistent problem of intermittency that has hindered use of the tiny light emitters for biological imaging or quantum photonics. Quantum dots,…