A man who perished when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD has had his DNA sequenced for the very first time by researchers. Per research released in the journal Scientific Reports on Thursday, scientists investigated the bones of two people ...
Beautiful and harmless, the newly found snake has piqued the interest of scientists worldwide. The genus Phalotris includes 15 semi-subterranean species that are found in central South America. There is a distinct pattern of red, black, and yellow on the ...
During the previous 24 hours, more than 720,000 hours of video were posted to YouTube by users. Physicist Melvin Vopson’s estimates a few years ago suggest that this actual quantity of visual material, together with half a billion tweets, hundreds ...
Astronomers have captured the first-ever high-definition photograph of a strange circle in space as they investigate the origins of these enigmatic objects. Pictures from the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder radio telescope (ASKAP) in 2019 revealed mysterious formations known as ...
The researchers made an interesting discovery when re-examining thin sections of Bushveld chromitites: chromite is often found as individual grains that seem to be suspended inside matrix minerals, which they thought was strange. Because of this result, the researchers are ...
Galaxies seldom exist in isolation. Instead, gravity draws hundreds to thousands of them together, generating huge clusters that are the universe’s biggest objects. Scientists have determined that the hydrogen gas inside galaxy clusters is very hot—roughly 10 million degrees Kelvin, ...
Astronomers have only detected four asteroids before they reached the Earth’s atmosphere: 2008 TC3, 2014 AA, 2018 LA, and 2019 MO. This is because detecting an asteroid before it enters the Earth’s atmosphere is such an uncommon occurrence for astronomers. ...
It is estimated that there was almost no oxygen in the atmosphere throughout the first 2 billion years of Earth’s existence. Although certain bacteria were photosynthesizing during the later part of this time, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere ...
As researchers learn more about brains and how they operate, it’s useful to know how much brain tissue is needed to execute specific jobs – and it turns out that just 302 neurons are needed to make complicated judgments. A ...
We may learn about some distant extraterrestrial rocky planets with breathing atmospheres similar to Earth in a very short period of time. Those observations will be made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is now in the ...
Soft robots may now be coated with materials that enable movement and allow them to operate more purposefully, according to physicists. The study, performed by the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, was published in Science Advances. The authors ...
Earlier this year, just after US Vice President Joseph Biden assumed office, scientists completed the final details of their latest aquatic finding. Despite being on opposite sides of the globe, these landmarks now share a place in history. The study ...
The finding of a possibly deadly asteroid early this year sent scientists on a thrill ride, and they were not alone. On January 6, 2022, scientists at the Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona announced the discovery of an asteroid measuring ...
Scientists have discovered for the first time, with the help of the most sophisticated telescopes that we have on this planet, as well as in space, a neutron star consuming stuff from a neighboring star, which is producing bursts of hot, ...
The only examples of “life” that we have are the kinds that exist on Earth. Astrobiologists believe that the hunt for extraterrestrial life, and possibly the beginnings of life on This planet, may need a larger scope. A research project ...
Astronomers have discovered a pair of odd stars that are unlike any other stars they have ever seen before, and that are coated with a perplexing accumulation of peculiar compounds. This cosmic unusual pair may have come into being as a ...
A group of scientists has revealed the development of one of the most high-performing atomic clocks ever created. Because the equipment measures time with such precision, it is only estimated that it will miss 1 second each 300 billion years, ...
Anybody, including a dinosaur, is unhappy when they suffer from whooping coughs, excessive sneezing, fevers, and hammering headaches. Earlier this year, scientists found the first signs of respiratory sickness in a sauropod, a herbivorous kind of dinosaur that lived around ...
Researchers have discovered a hidden channel below Panama that is “flowing” “wind” through the Earth’s mantle layer. Though residing in a geologic powerhouse, the country has few operational volcanoes, according to the findings. As per a study released last month ...
A recent study claims that strange geometric structures first seen on the tiny planet’s ground in 2015 are evidence of a process known as sublimation. According to a new theory, the polygonal nitrogen ice on Pluto, which was discovered throughout ...
Scientists found gravitational waves for the first time back in 2015, and since then the scientific field was never the same. LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is an advanced laser that helped scientists capture such gravitational waves and confirm one ...