About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean floor as the crust stretched and thinned, creating a volcan…

Evolutionarily related ‘proto-point’ centromeres providing resolution to the evolutionary origins of point centromeres are identified in yeast, and comparison shows they evolved in an ancestor with retrotransposon-rich centromeres and that long-terminal-repea…

Plus NOAA's GOES-19 satellite spies the lunar disk crossing the face of our parent star.

Environmentalists and scientists worry the state’s rapidly growing space industry will devastate nearby ecosystems, while commercial fishers say space launches are sinking their businesses.

New research shows a single year of warmer-than-average Arctic temperatures can cause malnutrition in Arctic seals, intensifying risks to Inuit food security and northern ecosystems already under pressure from environmental toxins, warn Simon Fraser Universit…

NASA’s breathtaking space photo reveals the hidden beauty of Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke, a 2.5-billion-year-old geological structure.

In this monthly issue, we explore the bleeding edge of biotech, as well as the scientists, writers, and philosophers whose efforts helped get us here.

Sixty years ago, a little-known philosopher challenged how science understands life. His perspective is finding new relevance in the age of artificial intelligence.

A big open question in 21st-century science is how life began here on Earth. The metabolism-first scenario just might be the best one.

More than 200 million years ago, this ancient crocodile roamed the Earth, before vanishing into stone.

Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a cislunar orbit between Earth and the moon. Less than 10% of these orbits remained stable throughout the simulations, but this is not as disa…

Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' fertility, a new study suggests.

Last week, the previous chair's resignation was accepted.

A fossil on display at Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies reveals how dinosaurs in the Tyrannosaurus genus may have subdued prey, and the specimen is the focus of a new collaborative research publication between scientists at MSU and the Univers…

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An international team of astronomers has performed multi-wavelength observations of the nearby Araish galaxy to investigate the origin of its radio emission. As a result, they detected an extended radio jet of this galaxy. The finding was reported February 11…

Dr. Marta Chmiel-Chrzanowska and her colleagues conducted a multidisciplinary analysis of the only known preserved wooden coffin from the Roman Iron Age, the Princess of Bagicz. The study, published in Archaeometry, used dendrochronology to resolve a long-sta…

By 2025, China aims to plant over 100 billion trees to combat desertification.

A 125-million-year-old dinosaur just rewrote what we thought we knew about prehistoric life. Scientists in China have uncovered an exceptionally preserved juvenile iguanodontian with fossilized skin so detailed that individual cells are still visible. Even mo…

Ultramarathons might push red blood cells past their limits—accelerating their aging in the process.

For the first time, researchers in China have accurately quantified how chaos increases in a quantum many-body system as it evolves over time. Combining experiments and theory, a team led by Yu-Chen Li at the University of Science and Technology of China show…

The NASA/SpaceX Crew-12 mission launched four astronauts on a journey to the International Space Station.

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Ancient footprints in New Mexico, dated to 23,000 years ago, reveal humans lived in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously believed.