No, oxygen didn’t catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth’s first multicellular organisms. The result defies a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of oceanic fauna hundreds of millions of years ago. Between 685 and 800 million years ago, the …

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Neuroscientist Michael Brecht published a study in which he describes a basic brain area that is activated when rodents play, suggesting that playful behavior is an instinct

The co-founder of the firm behind the doomed Titan submersible is now leading a project to create a floating colony of 1,000 people on Venus - just weeks after the disaster which killed five people.

A group of researchers was able to successfully engineer virgin birth in fruit flies.Asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis, is common in nature, but had

There is a new dinosaur— or rather, a new old dinosaur— for people to study. The fossil of an unknown species was found near Bangkok, Thailand, in 2012. Rese...

Right now, there are three active meteor showers, and their peak viewing times are approaching in the next few weeks.

‘It’s a new era for Arab space exploration,’ Emirati astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi tells Arab News from International Space Station in a Special InterviewRead mo...

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In the ongoing quest for human habitation on the Moon, the issue of cleanliness within spacesuits is a critical one

Amy Palmer, a biochemistry researcher at CU Boulder, used advanced fluorescent sensors and computational modeling to track naturally cycling cells to better understand an essential micronutrient. Zinc is a micronutrient that many individuals recognize as esse…

Scientists with the CSULB Shark Lab have observed more juvenile white sharks than ever before at SoCal beaches, yet there hasn't been an increase in shark bites.

Scientists Revive 46,000-Year-Old Roundworm, Stuck In Serbian PermafrostScientists revived a female microscopic roundworm, stuck deep in Siberian permafrost ...

Swirling brain waves may hold the key to decoding the mysteries of cognition

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Today's Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features Frederikshåb Glacier in southwest Greenland, which has been recently transformed by the summer melting season

The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon.Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal.Thats because it will be…

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a unique stellar object, an ultra-long period magnetar, challenging current understanding of neutron star physics. The enigmatic object, discovered in 2022, has been emitting radio waves for decades, sparking intere…

From two full moons and the Milky Way to the year’s best meteor shower and Saturn at opposition, here’s everything that's happening in the night sky this month

Phoebe Daniel was told she had osteosarcoma seven months after her dalmatian Chops was diagnosed

NASA and commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman are targeting 8:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 1, for the launch of the company’s 19th resupply mission to the International Space Station from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Liv

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DUBAI: Manned missions launched by the UAE and Saudi Arabia signal “a new era in Arab space exploration,” Emirati astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi has told Arab News from the International Space Station. As the first Arab astronaut deployed on a long-term space miss…

NASA scientist says that asteroids have hit the Earth in its long history and it can happen again.

Science News: Plants form relationships with microorganisms in the soil where they grow. For example, legumes benefit from a symbiotic connection with microorganism