Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs appro…
Astronomers have discovered an entirely new ring system within the solar system, and it's located at such a great distance from its dwarf plane…
Illustration of an autophagosome (light blue double-membrane to the right) engulfing cellular material. David S. Goodsell and Daniel Klionsky/RCSB PD…
Scientists have unearthed the fossilized remains of the largest ever known penguin on Earth, a 340-pound (154 kilograms) behemoth that glided through…
An illustration of a the surface of a rocky exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. (NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter) J…
Paleontologist Matt Friedman was surprised to discover a remarkably detailed 319-million-year-old fish brain fossil while testing out micro-CT scan…
The dodo, a Mauritian bird last seen in the 17th century, will be brought back to at least a semblance of life if attempts by a gene editing company …
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…