Scientists find evidence for an ancient supercontinent that covered 80 percent of Earth’s surface
A new global isotopic map has revealed vast fragments of ancient Gondwanan crust buried beneath younger mountain belts…
Tiny DNA fragments reveal two extinct Galápagos tortoise lineages
DNA from museum tortoise bones with as little as 0.008× genome coverage was enough to recover evolutionary relationships…
Inside the Dodo’s skull, scientists found a bird unlike any living pigeon
CT scans and digital endocasts of rare dodo skulls suggest the extinct bird had a brain broadly comparable…
Biology’s four-letter DNA alphabet just expanded to eight
Researchers showed that E. coli RNA polymerase can read and transcribe an eight-letter genetic alphabet containing four natural…
Sea salt may have made Snowball Earth far colder than previously thought
Salt crystals left behind on extremely cold tropical sea ice may have reflected as much as 93% of…
Ancient DNA rewrites the story of the extinct North America ‘Cheetah’
Ancient DNA shows the extinct “American cheetah,” Miracinonyx trumani, was actually the sister species of modern pumas, with…
JWST detected an icy world beyond Jupiter transforming into a comet
JWST detected carbon dioxide gas around the active Centaur 450P/LONEOS while finding no detectable water-vapor or carbon-monoxide emission,…
Genetic study links GLP-1 drugs to higher risk of male-pattern baldness
Men genetically predisposed to male-pattern baldness showed about 7% higher odds of hair loss when genetic variants predicted…
Quantum chip opens new way to read complex quantum systems
A quantum computing method called QCS reconstructed spectra from static, open and periodically driven quantum systems using one…
Strange behavior in focused laser light could change how quantum computers control qubits
Physicists have directly observed the optical Magnus effect for the first time by mapping how a tightly focused…
Quantum interference offers a radically different way to measure time
A new “quantum watch” uses changing interference patterns inside excited helium atoms to determine how much time has…
Scientists discover why rain drops can damage metal protective coatings
Water droplets can become electrically charged as they slide across surfaces, sometimes reaching electrical potentials of thousands of…