Fossilized footprints at a site in Spain include those of an extinct elephant’s newborns, suggesting the animals may have used the area as a nursery.

For over a decade, behavioral ecologist Diane Colombelli-Négrel and colleagues have been studying how birds perceive sounds before hatching.

Paleoanthropologists have sketched a rough timeline of how human evolution played out, centering the early action in Africa.

In “Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law,” author Mary Roach profiles mugging monkeys, thieving bears and other animal outlaws.

“SN Requiem” should reappear in the 2030s and help determine the universe’s expansion rate.

Two tubes of stone drilled from a basalt rock nicknamed Rochette are the first from Mars slated to eventually return to Earth.

Among the smallest boas in the world, the Hispaniolan vineboa inhabits a small patch of dry forest along the Dominican Republic’s border with Haiti.

As wildfires become more frequent in the western United States, these low-rain clouds could exacerbate drought, fueling more fires.

Physicists have been working on ways to use the power of plasma to boost plant growth and kill pathogens.

The Telleriano-Remensis, a famous codex written by a pre-Hispanic civilization, describes 12 quakes that rocked the Americas from 1460 to 1542.

A year ago, Stanford University’s citation study ranked Prof Thanu Padmanabhan as 24th in the field of theoretical physics in the world.

Padmanabhan, or Paddy as he was known to his colleagues and students, went on to achieve great heights in theoretical physics, making important contributions to the fields of gravity and quantum theory, structure and formation of universe.

Scientists think a novel kind of 'early dark energy' might help solve the mystery of the universe's expansion! More research is needed to prove it.

Renowned theoretical physicist Thanu Padmanabhan, a distinguished professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), kno

What if a bunch of liquid xenon under the Apennine Mountains found 68% of the universe?

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Apart from holding a faculty role at TIFR, he also served the role of a faculty member at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge.

Interferometers are widely used in various high spatial resolution imaging techniques to extend the diffraction limit. However, the conventional interferometric methods only work when the photons have ...

The renowned theoretical physicist, who passed away in Pune on Friday, had dreamed of setting up a world-class scientific research institute in his home State Kerala, says CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and former Kerala Education Minister M.A. Baby

Renowned physicist and professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Thanu Padmanabhan passed away after suffering a heart attack at his official residence in Pune on Friday

A Physics teacher at Achimota Senior High School in Accra has been found hanging in his room, the Accra Regional Police Command has confirmed.

India News: PUNE: Noted theoretical physicist and recipient of Padma Shri award, Professor Thanu Padmanabhan died due to cardiac arrest in Pune on Friday, a forme.

Science fiction could be once again moving into the realms of reality.

The device has been developed using “Triboelectric Effect” and “Electrostatic Induction”. It is called “Liquid-solid Interface Triboelectric Nanogenerator”.

A distinguished professor at Pune's Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics and a cosmologist, Professor Padmanabhan was selected for ‘Kerala Shastra Puraskaram’ 2021 last month.

Prof. Chuanfeng Li and Prof. Zongquan Zhou from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) innovatively raised and realized noiseless photon echo (NLPE) protocol. The research of entire originality reduced the noise by 670 times compared with previo

Dark energy, a mysterious force believed to be causing the universe to expand at an accelerated rate, may have been detected by scientists for the first time.

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Detecting dark energy's "non-gravitational interactions would have a tremendous impact."

Scientists may be able to study and explore the universe like never before thanks to this clock that improves timekeeping precision by a factor of 1,000.

In a tentative eureka moment, physicists from Cambride may have detected dark energy for the first time. This could be the biggest physics discovery ever!

Inspired by a kind of tree leaf, scientists at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) discovered that the spreading direction of different liquids deposited on the same surface can be steered, solving a ...

As the risk of severe climate change rises, and efforts to reduce carbon emissions ramp up, serious thought must also be given to the movement of people that climate change stands to provoke. This migration ...

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Implanted magnets that wirelessly track changes in muscle length could enhance manipulation of prosthetic limbs

Go, Dragon! Highly anticipated SpaceX landing off the coast of Florida with Inspiration4 crew will livestream on Twitter and YouTube.

You won't need to wait until fall to see this year's harvest moon. Here's when to expect it in the skies over Swampscott.

You won't need to wait until fall to see this year's harvest moon. Here's when to expect it in the skies over Beverly.

A 900-year-old cosmic mystery surrounding the origins of a famous supernova first spotted over China in 1181AD has finally been solved, according to an international team of astronomers. New research published today (September 15, 2021) says that a faint, fast expanding cloud (or nebula), called

Splashdown is set for 7:06 p.m. EDT (2306 GMT).

Scientists with the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service announced that the hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole is now larger than Antarctica.

The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission were due to splash down in the Atlantic off Florida on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit.

Amateur astronomers on two continents independently observed and recorded a white flash of light in the atmosphere on Jupiter’s Monday. Scientists and astronomers are working to see what a few stargazers on the two continents saw on Monday: a bright flash of Jupiter’s atmosphere probably affects the largest planet in our solar system. It was …

Pittsburgh Division of the National Weather Service says NASA will likely investigate residents’ reports

The hole in the ozone layer that reemerges with the changing of the seasons has now grown bigger than the size of Antarctica.

Scientists are investigating a possible exploding meteor over West Virginia Friday.

Something very unusual appears to have occurred around 10:30 a. m. Friday morning in northeast West Virginia. Around that time, an eyewitness in Sutton saw a very bright silver light pass across the sky. At the same, an eyewitness contacted Eyewitness News saying she was driving south from Pennsylvania into West Virginia and thought she saw a shooting star streak to the east across the sky.

The mission aims to raise $200 million while flying four diverse astronauts to orbit.

This week, astronomers have solved one supernova mystery and predicted a new supernova appearance — for 2037.

If confirmed, it would be the eighth impact flash recorded on Jupiter since 1994.

You won't need to wait until fall to see this year's harvest moon. Here's when to expect it in the skies over Barnstable.

Three Chinese astronauts landed back on Earth Friday following their three-month trip to China’s first self-developed space station, marking China’s longest-ever space mission.

China aims to launch another taikonaut crew in October, keeping the nation on track finish its new space station by the end of 2022.

The two men have been duking it out on the social media platform all year.

Inspiration4 was supposed to make space seem accessible, but the silent treatment we’ve been given has made the final frontier seem more distant than ever.

Despite the hole's size in 2021, the ozone layer is still on a long-term path to healing.

Tom Cruise got a sneak preview of what it’s like to circle Earth in a SpaceX capsule. Representatives for SpaceX’s first privately chartered flight revealed Friday that the actor took part in a call with the four space tourists orbiting more than 360 miles up. Last year, NASA confirmed it was in talks with Cruise about visiting the International Space Station for filming.

The rotorcraft captures nuances of rocky outcrop during aerial reconnaissance.

Do I have to drink eight glasses of water per day? Everyone knows humans need water and we can’t survive without it. We’ve all heard... The post How Much Water Should I Drink? We Asked Five Experts appeared first on SciTechDaily.

High number of affected animals were pups and juveniles, which were mainly entangled around the neck by fishing line. Fishing line and nets are having... The post Hundreds of Cape Fur Seals Entangled in Fishing Lines and Nets Every Year – Causing Horrific Injuries and Painful Deaths appeared first on SciTechDaily.

The key scientific advisory council of the Food and Drug Administration has voted to deny authorization of a “booster” shot of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine to... The post FDA Panel Voted 16–2 To Deny Authorization of Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine “Booster” Shot to the General Public appeared first on SciTechDaily.

The Human Cell Atlas is the world’s largest, growing single-cell reference atlas. It contains references of millions of cells across tissues, organs and developmental stages.... The post The Human Cell Atlas: AI Helps To Spot Single Diseased Cells appeared first on SciTechDaily.

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have synthesized a new conjugated polymer for organic electronics using two different chemical reactions and shown the impact of the... The post New Polymer Can Boost Solar Cell Performance appeared first on SciTechDaily.

A new chemical process developed by Empa turns cotton into a fire-resistant fabric, that nevertheless retains the skin-friendly properties of cotton. State-of-the-art flame retardant cotton... The post Fireproof and Comfortable Cotton: Protective Fabric Without Formaldehyde appeared first on SciTechDaily.

New technique delivers resolution improvement in ultrafast processes. An international consortium of scientists, initiated by Reinhard Kienberger, Professor of Laser and X-ray Physics at the... The post Pioneering and Highly Accurate Approach to Clocking Electron Movements Inside an Atom appeared first on SciTechDaily.

Scientific research has shown that sexuality exists on a spectrum. But how certain are people about where they fit on it? A new University of... The post Do You Think You’re Exclusively Straight? Influencing People’s Perceptions of Their Sexual Orientation appeared first on SciTechDaily.

Using bats’ responses to SARS-CoV-2 may provide key insights into therapies for COVID-19. A paper published in the prestigious journal, Science Immunology, explores the idea that... The post How Do Bats Resist COVID? Insights Could Lead to New Treatments for Humans appeared first on SciTechDaily.

Study suggests some medications might inhibit virus replication in human cells. Despite the development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, effective therapeutics are needed until worldwide immunity has... The post Several FDA-Approved Drugs Could Be Repurposed To Treat People Infected With COVID-19 appeared first on SciTechDaily.

Timelapse video made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s second mission to the International Space Station, “Alpha”. The camera is setup to take pictures at regular... The post Auroraspectacular: Timelapse Video Made by Astronaut on International Space Station appeared first on SciTechDaily.

In the midst of another brutal fire season, several of California’s natural treasures have also been threatened. In the midst of another brutal fire season that has... The post Fire Encroaching on Giant Sequoias – California’s Natural Treasures Threatened appeared first on SciTechDaily.

Extremely premature infants are at a high risk for brain damage. Researchers have now found possible targets for the early treatment of such damage outside the brain: Bacteria in the gut of premature infants may play a key role. The research team found that the overgrowth of the gastrointestinal tract with the bacterium Klebsiella is associated with an increased presence of certain immune cells and the development of neurological damage…

Scientists have studied an ancient supervolcano in Indonesia and found such volcanoes remain active and hazardous for thousands of years after a super-eruption, prompting the need for a rethink of how these potentially catastrophic events are predicted.

Researchers combined observations and modeling to infer the distribution of cold planets in the Milky Way. The results suggest that this distribution is not strongly dependent on the distance from the galactic center. Cold planets seem to be present throughout our galaxy, even in the galactic bulge, where their existence was uncertain. The findings could improve our understanding of both planetary formation and its history in the Milky Way.

What transpires in comedies and cartoons when a character has a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is not far off from people's perceptions of the real world, finds a new study.

Researchers have discovered a universal mathematical formula that can describe any bird's egg existing in nature -- a significant step in understanding not only the egg shape itself, but also how and why it evolved, thus making widespread biological and technological applications possible.

A new analysis of 2.5-billion-year-old rocks from Australia finds that volcanic eruptions may have stimulated population surges of marine microorganisms, creating the first puffs of oxygen into the atmosphere. This would change existing stories of Earth's early atmosphere, which assumed that most changes in the early atmosphere were controlled by geologic or chemical processes.

A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers, which could greatly accelerate the search for life outside our Solar System.

There's been an age-old question going back to Darwin's time about the relationships among the world's five living rhinoceros species. One reason answers have been hard to come by is that most rhinos went extinct before the Pleistocene. Now, researchers have helped to fill the gaps in the rhino evolutionary family tree by analyzing genomes of all five living species together with the genomes of three ancient and extinct species.

Scientists have unraveled the enigma of inheritance of coat color patterns in dogs. The researchers discovered that a genetic variant responsible for a very light coat in dogs and wolves originated more than two million years ago in a now extinct relative of the modern wolf.

A new study has uncovered the engineering secrets behind what makes fish fins so strong yet flexible. The research could one day lead to new designs for robotic surgical tools or even airplane wings that change their shape with the push of a button.

Scientists are observing changes in the Earth's climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest IPCC Report. Many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some of the changes already set in motion -- such as continued sea level rise -- are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of years.

Eating a plant-centered diet during young adulthood is associated with a lower risk of heart disease in middle age, according to a long-term study with about 30 years of follow-up. A separate study with about 15 years of follow-up found that eating more plant-based foods that have been shown to lower cholesterol, called the 'Portfolio Diet', is associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women.

Scientists have discovered evidence that giraffes are a highly socially complex species.

Researchers have discovered that spontaneous impulses of dopamine, the neurological messenger known as the brain's 'feel good' chemical, occur in the brain of mice. The study found that mice can willfully manipulate these random dopamine pulses for reward.

Researchers have been able to use seismic data to look inside Mars for the first time. They measured the crust, mantle and core and narrowed down their composition.

Scientists have shown that cockatoos can learn from each other a unique skill -- lifting garbage bin lids to gather food. The research confirms that cockatoos spread this novel behavior through social learning.

Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of those viruses, which survived because they had remained frozen, are unlike any viruses that have been cataloged to date.

New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions of millimeters high, due to the huge gravity on the ultra-dense objects.

Researchers have successfully developed a 'speech neuroprosthesis' that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen.

A team of physicists has developed a special type of quantum computer known as a programmable quantum simulator capable of operating with 256 quantum bits, or 'qubits.'

The ability to focus on where we will be in the near future, rather than where we are at present, may be a key characteristic of the mammalian brain's built-in navigation system, suggests a new study. The researchers wirelessly tracked the brain activity of flying Egyptian fruit bats, finding that neural activity in the bats' hippocampuses more strongly represented future locations than current locations.

New research shows radioactive molecules are sensitive to subtle nuclear phenomena. The molecules might help physicists probe violation of the most fundamental symmetries of nature, including why the universe contains relatively little antimatter.

Flies have discriminating taste. Like a gourmet perusing a menu, they spend much of their time seeking sweet nutritious calories and avoiding bitter, potentially toxic food. But what happens in their brains when they make these food choices? Researchers discovered an interesting way to find out. They tricked them.

A new study disputes the prevailing hypothesis on why Mercury has a big core relative to its mantle. For decades, scientists argued that hit-and-run collisions blew away much of Mercury's rocky mantle and left the big, dense, metal core inside. But new research reveals that collisions are not to blame -- instead, the density, mass and iron content of a rocky planet's core is influenced by its distance from the…

Current rates of plastic emissions globally may trigger effects that we will not be able to reverse, argues a new study. According to the authors, plastic pollution is a global threat, and actions to drastically reduce emissions of plastic to the environment are 'the rational policy response.'

Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of pengornithid enantiornithine bird with a pair of elaborate tail feathers. Enantiornithes are the most successful group of Mesozoic birds, arguably representing the first global avian radiation. They are known exclusively from the Cretaceous period, predominantly from fossils discovered in Asia, and commonly resolved as the sister

Paleontologists have discovered tracks and trackways of newborns, calves and juveniles attributed to straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) at the Upper Pleistocene site in Huelva, Spain. The straight-tusked elephant is a species of giant elephant that lived between 1.5 million and 100,000 years ago. This animal with very wide heads and extremely long tusks is among

Using high-resolution images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, planetary scientists have discovered 4-billion-year-old layered deposits containing minerals consistent with altered volcanic ash throughout a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra. They estimate that the volcanic ash observed in this region is the result of between 1,000 and 2,000 individual explosive eruptions over 500 million

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found thousands of dense gas clumps but, surprisingly, no star formation, in a circumnuclear disk around Sagittarius A*, the 4-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Every large galaxy has a central supermassive black hole that dominates and is fed by nearby

Entomologists have described a new species in the window fly genus Scenopinus from Finland. Window flies are members of Scenopinidae, a small family of primitive flies belonging to the superfamily Asiloidea. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with more than 420 described species in 25 genera. The greatest diversity is in the arid regions of the

A series of previously unreported hand and foot impressions from the Tibetan Plateau dates to between 169,000 and 226,000 years ago (middle Pleistocene period) and may be the oldest work of art. “The question is: What does this mean? How do we interpret these prints? They’re clearly not accidentally placed,” said co-author Dr. Thomas Urban,

According to a new study in mice, a probable cause of Alzheimer’s disease is the leakage from blood into the brain of fat-carrying particles transporting toxic proteins. “We identified the probable ‘blood-to-brain pathway’ that can lead to Alzheimer’s disease, the most prevalent form of dementia globally,” said study’s senior author Professor John Mamo, director of

Impact bombardment has played a significant role in the evolution of the Earth-Moon system. However, it is suggested from different perspectives, including impact crater dating, asteroid dynamics, lunar samples, impact basin-forming simulations, and lunar evolution modeling, that the Moon could be missing evidence of its earliest cratering record. New research shows that many ancient impact

A new genus and species of palaeoscolecid worm has been identified from two specimens found in the Burgess Shale-type deposits in Utah, the United States. Palaeoscolecida is a group of extinct ecdysozoan worms that existed from the Ealy Cambrian to the Late Silurian period. These ancient creatures were narrow and long, up to tens of

A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides empirical evidence for deliberate self-care tooling in a species of bird. “Most reports of tooling in birds revolve around foraging,” said study lead author Amalia Bastos, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland, and colleagues from the University of

Recently, lots of commonsense reasoning datasets have been created. However, existing benchmarks are often composed of data from

Animals are usually very protective of their own species. However, cannibalism is not uncommon behaviour in nature. For

 Peptides could be primed to solve the knotty problem of antibiotic resistance among humans. Rice University scientists believe they can

Current smartphones use an asymmetric-cameras system consisting of multiple fixed-focal lenses. The most common configuration has dual cameras

DNA defects are linked to cancer and may be primary reasons for aging. However, scientists argue that protein

A 900-year-old cosmic mystery surrounding the origins of a famous supernova first spotted over China in 1181AD has

A specially designed lipid nanoparticle could deliver immune-signaling molecules into liver macrophage cells to overcome resistance to anti-tumor

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed a new, versatile antidote to counteract exposure to nerve agent poisoning.

Two interactive web experiences let you explore the Martian surface, as seen by cameras aboard the rover and