In a new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) exposed to a brood-killing fungus shifted their foraging habits toward nectar laced with a natural antimicrobial compound, offering a rare gl

New research puts stringent limits on the unknown ‘material’ responsible for Venus’ dark ultraviolet markings, suggesting it must absorb sunlight with remarkable efficiency or exist in unusually high concentrations.

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Long before Europeans arrived, cacao (Theobroma cacao) may have traveled far beyond its Central and South American homeland to reach Etowah, a major Mississippian-period city in what is now Georgia.

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Researchers have developed a nanoparticle-based treatment that appears to improve performance on standard memory and learning tests as well as reduce brain inflammation and levels of amyloid-beta in mice with Alzheimer’s disease by converting star-shap

New research suggests that when it comes to shedding tiny plastic particles into hot beverages, biodegradable cups may actually be worse offenders than their conventional counterparts.

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A team of physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has found that a steady stream of sound waves can shield a fragile quantum bit from its own noisy surroundings, nearly tripling how long it holds information

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a surprisingly large population of faint, low-mass stars in distant galaxies, suggesting some of the early Universe’s biggest galaxies may contain up to four times more stellar

Using lasers, computer models and AI, researchers reconstructed the calls of 165-million-year-old relatives of modern crickets and katydids from fossilized wing fragments found in China.

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A new analysis of images of 217 ‘little red dots’ from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope suggests they sit inside remarkably compact, star-forming galaxies.

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An enduring debate in paleoanthropology asks what kind of foot the last common ancestor (LCA) of humans and chimpanzees had: one built like a modern ape’s for climbing straight up trees, or one built more like a generalized monkey’s, less suited to ver

Cranial fossils of a nodosaurid ankylosaur unearthed more than two decades ago on the Japanese island of Hokkaido have been recognized as belonging to a new genus and species.

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Perseverance has caught the silhouette of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons, sweeping across the solar disk in a fresh transit video from Jezero crater.

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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have captured stunning new images of the surface of Betelgeuse, the famous red supergiant star in the constellation Orion, revealing persistent hot patches and a distorted, non-spherica

Scientists have identified a decades-old chemical compound as a promising new candidate for treating obesity and related metabolic diseases.

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Dr. Andrew Gunn, a scientist at Monash University, has produced a complete digital map of Earth’s wind-blown sand dunes.

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Gliese 523b (GJ 523b) is a young, ultra-dense planet that orbits almost perpendicular to its star’s spin, according to a team of U.S. astronomers.

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Researchers at King’s College London have identified a surprising new therapeutic mechanism for a type of heart failure called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), a condition that affects nearly half of all heart failure patients an

A fossilized bone unearthed two decades ago in northeastern Japan belongs to one of the smallest iguanodontian dinosaurs ever found in the country’s Cretaceous marine rocks, according to new research led by the University of Tsukuba.

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A new genus and species of sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Triassic period, some 245 million years ago, has been identified from a nearly complete skeleton found in China.

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For nearly 110 years, biologists have puzzled over why domestic cats’ kidneys are packed with unusually large numbers of fat-storing structures called lipid droplets.

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Astronomers have spotted a faint, previously unknown star whipping around Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, on the tightest and most extreme orbit ever recorded.

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Dr. Ian Towle, a researcher with the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University, proposes folding nearly 5 million years of hominin fossils into the genus Homo, arguing that traits once used to separate species -- big brains, tool use -- no l

Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of armored, jawless fish from rocks around 419 million years old whose skull was shaped like the wing of a bat and whose unusual head made it an efficient glider through Devonian seas.

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A Neanderthal pelvis -- the basin-shaped ring of bones at the base of the spin -- discovered decades ago may help explain an unusual feature of modern human anatomy: why the pelvises of men and women are shaped so differently.

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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found definitive evidence that the young Milky Way swallowed a dwarf galaxy just two billion years after the Big Bang, revealing one of the earliest major mergers in the history of our Galaxy.

Two fossilized leg bones of Denisovans dredged decades ago from the seafloor off Taiwan indicate that at least some members of the group were remarkably large-bodied.

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Archaeopteryx -- the first ever bird to inhabit the Earth -- may have hopped its way into the air, rather than launching with the single powerful leap modern birds use, according to a new biomechanical study published in the journal Developmental Biolo

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa have identified a molecular pathway that may explain how folic acid (vitamin B9) helps prevent neural tube defects, linking the vitamin to a key developmental signa

Paleontologists have uncovered the first direct physical evidence that colossal prehistoric crocodiles hunted large plant-eating mammals in what is now Colombia roughly 12 million years ago.

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Scientists analyzing DNA of Madagascar’s iconic baobab trees have concluded that a widespread species called Adansonia za is actually two, formally resurrecting a name first given to the tree more than a century ago and raising the tally of baobab spec

A previously unrecognized species of the antthrush genus Chamaeza has been discovered in the isolated highland rainforests of northeastern Brazil.

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Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found that IRS 3 is still forging silicate dust and harboring water molecules despite the Galaxy’s most extreme radiation environment.

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The baryon number appears to be carried not by the proton’s three quarks alone, but by the web of gluons that binds those quarks together -- a structure known as a baryon junction.

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Astronomers propose that the dust-rich tori surrounding active galactic nuclei (AGN) -- the energetic cores of galaxies powered by feeding supermassive black holes -- behave much like the protoplanetary disks that spawn planets around young stars.

Paleontologists studying a 236-million-year-old cynodont fossil from Argentina say they have found the earliest evidence yet of viviparity (live birth) in the evolutionary line that leads to mammals, pushing back the origin of this reproductive strateg

Roughly 660 million years after the Big Bang, a strange bright red spot has been hiding in plain sight in one of the deepest fields ever imaged by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.

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Marine biologists have documented Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) using large sea shells to hunt for fish off the coast of Queensland, Australia -- only the second place in the world where this behavior, known as shelling, has ever

New simulations suggest supernova explosions of the Universe’s first stars scattered the ingredients for rocky planets only 100 million years after the Big Bang, with water already present in some planet-forming disks.

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Physicists working with the ALICE experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have made the most detailed measurement yet of gluon behavior inside nuclei, finding evidence that the particles may reach a densely packed state known as gluon saturation.…

Manuka honey may also hold potential against bacteria that cause respiratory infections, including strains resistant to common antibiotics, and its antibacterial effects arise from the combined action of methylglyoxal (MGO) and additional components wi

Dr. Erin Maxwell from the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart and colleagues have identified a second species from the German Plattenkalk limestone deposits: Jabalisaurus tethyensis.

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In three new studies, researchers at the University of Gothenburg have found that adolescents who use nicotine -- including e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches -- report more mental health symptoms than peers who don’t, with girls showing the strongest e

Astronomers have released the largest-ever 2D map of our Universe, charting nearly 4 billion stars, galaxies and other objects across roughly 75% of the sky.

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A new analysis of three skull fragments unearthed at the Gran Dolina cave site in Spain indicates that Homo antecessor had bone thickness closer to that of Neanderthals and modern people than to more archaic hominins.

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New infrared observations of the Eskimo Nebula, a bipolar double-shell planetary nebula in the constellation of Gemini, reveal clumps of dust, ionized gas and expanding shells surrounding a central star.

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Dinosaurs evolved into some of the largest animals ever to walk the Earth, but a new mathematical model suggests that early mammals may have crowded them out of the ecological niches reserved for the smallest creatures.

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A stunning new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals a comet-shaped cloud in the Carina Nebula hiding a cluster of about 70 young stars, including a rare giant of O-type nearly 19 times as massive as the Sun.

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Planetary researchers analyzing images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have found evidence that liquid nitrogen may still be seeping up from beneath the dwarf planet’s giant glacier, Sputnik Planitia, marking the first suggested case of recently fl

Paleontologists have described a new genus of small, bird-like dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico approximately 73 million years ago.

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Neanderthals vanished roughly 42,000 years ago, but a piece of their biology appears to be quietly at work in some people today, according to a new study led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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