Scientists Directly Date 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Evidence of Life For The First Time : ScienceAlert
Sometime in Earth’s distant past, nearly 4 billion years ago, our planet’s earliest lifeforms somehow coalesced from primordial…
Narwhals Sport Iconic Straight, Spiraled Tusks. Scientists Just Uncovered Some of the Eye-Catching Feature’s Structural Secrets
The Arctic whales are the only known animals with straight tusks, and ones that consistently twist to the…
Microbes from Earth may survive on the moon, scientists find
Microbes from Earth might survive the harsh surface of the moon, albeit in a state of suspended animation,…
3x larger crystal could power laser systems for fusion research
A North Carolina-based company has grown and harvested a ytterbium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Yb:YLF) crystal boule. Laser crystals,…
In 1911, Norwegian whalers released 10 reindeer on South Georgia for food and hunting; a century later nearly 7,000 were removed after the herds damaged native vegetation
In 1911, Norwegian whalers released 10 reindeer on South Georgia for food and hunting When Norwegian whalers brought…
Wake-activated brain circuits reveal what drives the urge to sleep
By mapping the brain during prolonged wakefulness, researchers pinpointed neuronal populations whose activity rises with time awake and…
A robot spent 10 days hunting glowing animals between Monterey and the Channel Islands, then found a 130-foot “ghost” with elaborate lures that science still does not have a name for
An expedition off California has delivered fresh data on deep-sea life. Scientists worked from Monterey Bay to the…
China’s Chang’e 7 moon probe will launch this weekend on the most ambitious lunar mission in history
China’s moon exploration program is readying an ambitious robotic mission, one composed of an orbiter, a lander, a…
Want to muck around with a real quantum computer? Now you can
Quantum computers are expected to transform many facets of science and industry over the next decade or so…
First time in 100 years, North American river otter spotted in the Bronx River: ‘I could hardly believe what I was seeing’
North American river otter spotted in the Bronx River after 100 years. By the early 1990s, river otters…
Scientists unlock the ‘ancient DNA’ of a long-lost Lānaʻi bird species
Birds like the nēnē, ʻiʻiwi and manu-o-Kū are already familiar across the Hawaiian islands — but have you…
My family have fished this river for 300 years – now pollution has killed all the fish
It is a centuries-old tradition in Wales, but coracle fishers on a major river have said pollution has…