This skull from Zlatý kůň cave near Prague belonged to the earliest known modern human in Europe. Credit: Marek Jantač The fossil skull of a…
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Nacre, or mother-of-pearl, found in red abalone and other mollusks, is extremely fracture-resistant. That’s one reason researchers are interested in the natural material, and why…
Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the American…
This diagram shows the steps Boston College and WPI researchers took to isolate and seed primary bovine satellite cells on a decellularized spinach leaf scaffold.…
Traditional Owner Ian Waina inspecting a Naturalistic painting of a kangaroo, determined to be more than 17,100 years old based on the age of overlying…
If COVID Spread to North American Bats, It Could Be Disastrous – Here Is the Current Risk Assessment
Insect-eating Brazilian free-tailed bats. Credit: Paul Cryan, USGS The risk is low that scientists could pass coronavirus to North American bats during winter research, according…
Are we really living in a polarized world? A mathematical model reveals surprises — particularly about people in the middle. When people talk about the…
Artist’s impression showing one eagle shark. Credit: © Oscar Sanisidro Introducing a “bizarre” shark from the Late Cretaceous that, more than 66 million years ago,…
The plant-eating pareiasaurs were preyed on by sabre-toothed gorgonopsians. Both groups died out during the end-Permian mass extinction, or “The Great Dying.” Credit: © Xiaochong…
Highway and wind turbines in Tamil Nadu, India. India has ambitious scale-up plans for renewable energy over the next decade. Credit: iStock Berkeley Lab-led team…
The archaeological site at a rock shelter in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert: More than 100,000 years ago, people used the so-called Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter…
The giant mihirung Dromornis stirtoni, by artist Peter Trusler. Credit: Peter Trusler The largest flightless bird ever to live weighed in up to 600kg and…
Jorge Blanco’s artist impression of Llukalkan aliocranianus. Credit: Jorge Blanco and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Ruling in the Late Cretaceous, Llukalkan aliocranianus could be as…
The AI developed by IIT researchers will analyzing satellite images in order to detect traces of hidden archaeological sites. Credit: ESA/IIT The Cultural Landscapes Scanner…
When humans look out at a visual landscape like a sunset or a beautiful overlook, we experience something — we have a conscious awareness of…
Mummified scarlet macaw recovered from Pica 8 in northern Chile. Credit: Calogero Santoro, Universidad de Tarapacá, and José Capriles, Penn State Ancient Egyptians mummified cats,…
Interaction between auditory and reward brain circuits underpins musical pleasure. Communication between the brain’s auditory and reward circuits is the reason why humans find music…
Invasive water plant becomes breeding ground for a lethal cyanobacteria. The alarm bells began ringing when dozens of eagles were found dead near an Arkansas…
Plastics are one of the world’s largest polluters, taking hundreds of years to degrade in nature. A research team, led by YSE professor Yuan Yao…
By closely examining the jaw mechanics of juvenile and adult tyrannosaurids, some of the fiercest dinosaurs to inhabit Earth, scientists led by the University of…