Scientists resurrect a 160-million-year-old mammal immune system and watch it evolve
Researchers reconstructed antimicrobial peptides from mammal ancestors dating back about 160 million years and found that some ancient…
New ‘Google-like’ search engine can scan millions of cells for hidden RNA clues in seconds
Malva can search RNA sequences across millions of individual cells in seconds without requiring researchers to download enormous…
‘Shark graveyard’ in Egypt’s Western Desert reveals a lost tropical sea from the age of the dinosaurs
Fourteen fossil teeth from Egypt’s Western Desert reveal five extinct shark species that once lived in a tropical…
‘Cosmic Glitch’ could explain why gravity acts differently across the Universe
Einstein’s theory of gravity may behave slightly differently across distances of billions of light-years, with gravity appearing about…
Astronomers find an ultra-dense mega-Earth 23 times our planet’s mass but only 2.5 times its size
GJ 523b is 2.55 times Earth’s radius but about 23.5 times its mass, making it unusually dense for…
CERN physicists recreate matter from the early universe using ‘Little Big Bangs’
Physicists created signs of primordial quark-gluon plasma by colliding oxygen and neon nuclei, much smaller nuclei than traditionally…
Ancient Toba eruption reveals a supervolcano can stay dangerous for thousands of years
Indonesia’s Toba supervolcano remained active for thousands of years after its massive eruption about 74,000 years ago.Some later…
Mars moon Deimos may be hiding ancient craters beneath 120 meters of debris
A single asteroid impact may explain both Deimos’ huge south-polar depression and the thick blanket of debris covering…
A 1-megaton nuclear blast could prevent 97% of a city-killer asteroid from hitting Earth
A 1-megaton nuclear explosion detonated near a 160-meter asteroid produced damage and motion consistent with the object breaking…
Newer blood thinners linked to slower Alzheimer’s decline
Newer blood thinners were linked to slightly slower memory and thinking decline in people with both Alzheimer’s disease…
Diamond’s extreme melting point could unlock more fusion energy
Diamond melts under extreme pressure in a way that now closely matches quantum-based simulations, resolving a disagreement that…
150-year-old Darwin mystery solved by a carnivorous alpine flower
Saxifraga candelabrum, an alpine flowering plant from China, has been confirmed as carnivorous because it attracts, traps, digests,…