Paleontologist Matt Friedman was surprised to discover a remarkably detailed 319-million-year-old fish brain fossil while testing out micro-CT scan…
Billion-dollar startup Colossal Biosciences claims it has come a step closer to reviving the dodo, a flightless bird that has been extinct since the …
The fossil of a 185 million-year-old ancestor of crocodiles has been discovered on Britain’s Jurassic Coast. Parts of the head, backbone, and limbs o…
An eerily-perfect "whirlpool" of light in the shape of a spiral galaxy briefly appeared in the night sky above Hawaii. But what was it? It…
Ants can be trained to detect cancer in urine, a new study finds. Although ant sniffing is a long way from being used as a diagnostic tool in human…
Detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. (RHIC) Silently churning away at the heart of every atom in the Universe …
Scientists have created a tiny "Terminator 2"-like robot that can melt and resolidify itself on command, enabling it to easily escape fro…
A new species of dinosaur with more than 400 teeth which ate in a similar way to ducks and flamingos has been discovered in Germany. The fossil of th…
Antimatter particles such as positrons and antiprotons abound in the cosmos. Much less common are light antinuclei, composed of antiprotons and an…
Physicists from the TOTEM Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the DØ Collaboration at Fermilab have found strong new evidence for…
Paleontologists have described new specimens of theropods — a dinosaur group that includes both modern birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur rel…
Evolution has produced stunningly complex features, from neuron-studded octopus arms to the mammalian ear. Can evolution ever go "backward,&qu…
Scientists have demonstrated in a first that a powerful laser beam directed at the sky can create a “virtual lightning rod” that can divert the pat…
It is now widely accepted that birds are descended from dinosaurs . It is also understood that this transition encompasses some of the most dramat…
Beavers are renowned for building dams, which the animals construct from trees and branches they cut using their strong front teeth, according to t…
Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human – but is there more to it? The brain’s shape, as well as the shapes of its compone…
A nearly 28,000-year-old cave lion cub, discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost, is so well preserved, you can still make out each and every o…
Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don’t expect to be heading back to visit the dinosaur…