Artist’s impression of Macrospondylus- an extinct fossil group of teleosauriods. Credit: Nikolay Zverkov Scientists probing a prehistoric crocodile group’s shadowy past have discovered a timeless…
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Potential treatments for Covid-19 have been identified after the discovery of five genes associated with the most severe form of the disease. Genetic evidence is…
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.…
Mining Rocks in Orbit – Using Bacteria-Powered Biomining Reactors – Could Aid Deep Space Exploration
Astronaut Luca Parmitano places biomining reactors into a centrifuge onboard the International Space Station. Credit: European Space Agency The first mining experiments conducted in space…
Three Oksoko avarsan dinosaurs. Credit: Michael W. Skrepnick A newly discovered species of toothless, two-fingered dinosaur has shed light on how a group of parrot-like…
Artist’s impression of dinosaurs on prehistoric mudflat. Credit: Jon Hoad They are among the most recognizable dinosaurs … now paleontologists have discovered that stegosaurs left…
Model of a single-molecule magnet. Credit: Dr. Olof Johansson Tiny, laser-activated magnets could enable cloud computing systems to process data up to 100 times faster…
New research techniques are being adopted by scientists tackling the most visible impact of climate change — the so-called greening of Arctic regions. The latest…
Researchers doing fieldwork in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Credit: Stuart Gilfillan The discovery of gases released from deep beneath the Earth’s crust could help to explain…
A life-like structure created in the lab by chemical gardening. Credit: Sean McMahon The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by…
Life reconstruction of Mystriosaurus. Credit: Julia Beier A prehistoric crocodile that lived around 180 million years ago has been identified — almost 250 years after…