A segment of fiber cord that has been wrapped with turkey feathers, along with a single downy feather. Credit: WSU The ancient inhabitants of the…
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The long-held belief that the Milky Way, the galaxy containing Earth and the solar system, is relatively static has been ruptured by fresh cosmic insight.…
Pachodynerus nasidens on 3D-printed De Haviland Dash-8 pitot probe. Credit: House et al (2020) PLOS ONE, CC BY Over a period of 39 months, invasive…
The decoy effect is the phenomenon where consumers swap their preference between two options when presented with a third option. The decoy effect: how you…
Illustration depicting the early bird Falcatakely amidst nonavian dinosaurs and other creatures during the Late Cretaceous in Madagascar. Credit: Mark Witton Rare cretaceous-age fossil opens…
Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools in the same way that we hold a hammer, according to a paper published in Scientific Reports. The…
Live reconstruction of the early sauropod Bagualia alba. Credit: Jorge Gonzales Global warming triggered the evolution of giant dinosaurs. An international team of paleontologists, including…
By cutting into fossils and examining growth rings, scientists learned how predatory dinosaurs got so big. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs…
(A) “Portrait of a Bearded Man” (Walters Art Museum #32.6), dated c. 170-180 CE from Roman Imperial Egypt; (B) The portrait under ultraviolet light. The…
The largest study of the COVID-19’s impacts on U.S. seafood industry suggests that fishmongers may flounder — or go belly up — without more government…
Professor Robert Henry collects wild rice samples in northern Australia. Credit: (c) The University of Queensland Researchers investigating the heritage of thousands of rice varieties…
The RMIT team’s pictures showed that the regular diamonds only form in the middle of these Lonsdaleite veins under this new method developed by the…
Titanosaurs were common at the time of the asteroid hit at the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago. A new statistical analysis of…
While in Paris in the 1990s, Georgie briefly watched a professional photographer taking pictures of kids playing in a small park near Les Halles and…
Based on different commercially available raw materials (e.g., TiO2-mica, Fe2O3-mica), a variety of all-natural bioinspired structural materials with different colors can be fabricated. Credit: GUAN…
One of the biggest challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry right now is the high cost of developing a new drug and successfully bringing it to…
A study of how 98 million Americans move around each day suggests that most infections occur at “superspreader” sites, and details how mobility patterns help…
Aerial view of a field study at the University of Illinois SoyFACE research facility that examined how cassava (a staple root crop) will adapt to…
Caption:With the global spread of Covid-19, medical mask production workers organize masks. A new NSF-funded project is developing a model to help manufacturers pivot and…
The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved fossil from the extinct human species Paranthropus robustus suggests rapid evolution during a turbulent period of local climate change,…