By about 11,700 years ago, most large land mammals outside of Africa had gone extinct. Scientists have long debated whether these extinctions were primarily caused [more…]
In what seems like something out of a sci-fi movie, scientists have plucked the famous Pink Floyd song “Another Brick in the Wall” from individuals’ [more…]
The world’s oldest moss has seen four mass extinctions — but may not survive climate change. The genus Takakia has the highest number of fast-evolving [more…]
After Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico in 2017, monkeys living there forged new bonds to share a suddenly scarce resource: shade. Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) [more…]
When it comes to vast, under-explored frontiers, space and Earth’s oceans come to mind. But even in human bodies, there’s still much to be discovered. [more…]
Promising candidates for efficient future electronics, researchers are exploring these exotic materials for better computer memory, hard drives, even quantum computers. Experimental studies of elementary [more…]
Using the galactic glow of dwarf galaxies, researchers investigate a hypothetical particle called an axion as a possible contender for dark matter. Since the 1930s, [more…]
Just days after the world was introduced to the heaviest known ancient whale, a much tinier member of the same family has been found on [more…]
With a unique experimental setup that measures magnetism and atomic vibrations, scientists finally shed light on a unique property of Invars, which don’t expand when [more…]
Move over, blue whales. There could be a new heavyweight champ in town. Fossilized vertebrae and ribs from a newly discovered ancient whale suggest that [more…]
