During cocoon phase, young, supermassive black holes are surrounded by high-density gas.

A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering.

Inventor Thomas Edison is known for being ahead of his time, and a new study could add another notch to his overachieving belt.

Online discussions can catch errors or fraud in articles that can be missed in peer review.

The volcanic hot spot is larger than Lake Superior, spewing eruptions six times the total energy of all of the world's power plants.

Using a powerful AI tool, astronomers have combed through vast troves of data from NASA's Hubble and found over 1,300 cosmic anomalies, more than 800 of which are new to science.

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Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our solar system from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometers per second, just over double Earth's speed around the sun.

That's four days earlier than originally planned.

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), have led the most extensive obser…

Thyme, rosemary, and lavender have long been associated with natural medicine. Today, however, these aromatic plants are increasingly being studied by researchers. "In an era of ever-increasing microbial resistance to antibiotics, there is a growing emphasis …

Russia is testing a plasma engine prototype designed to slash Mars travel time to just 60 days. Developed by Rosatom’s Troitsk Institute, the system uses...

Building things so small that they are smaller than the width of a human hair was previously achieved by using a method called two-photon polymerization, also known as 2PP—today's state-of-the-art in 3D micro- and nanofabrication. Tiny sculptures such as a mi…

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Amplification and optimal noise filtering in hyperpolarized noble-gas spins of observations from distributed intercity quantum sensors monitoring for unexpected transient rotations of polarized spins set parameter range constraints in the search for axion dar…

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

We're on shakier ground than previously thought.

Ordinary matter, when cooled, transitions from a gas into a liquid. Cool it further still, and it freezes into a solid. Quantum matter, however, can behave very differently. In the early 20th century, researchers discovered that when helium is cooled, it tran…

The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.

Jupiter's fourth-largest moon is a main character in our search for other life-friendly places in our solar system.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer. Available on Birds of the World, the Phylogeny Exp…

For decades, attention went elsewhere. But these ocean “fronts” may be the missing piece in how carbon is taken up.

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up surprises. A new paper reveals the latest: a possible rocky planet slightly larger than Earth, orbiting a sun-like star about 146 light-years …

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