The most thorough study yet of a mysterious creature that lived 300 million years ago has ruled that it had no bones after all. Since its discovery n…
Icaronycteris gunnelli, paratype. Image credit: Rietbergen et al., doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283505. Scientists have identified a new species of b…
What Is Eye Color? What we refer to as eye color is actually the presence of melanin, a pigment (the natural coloring agent in organic tissue) in the…
The motion of a star as it makes its way through the galaxy has led to the discovery of a new alien world. Using data from the Gaia spacecraft that…
In a first, scientists have shown that they can send light through "slits" in time. The new experiment is a twist on a 220-year-old demons…
Scientists are still getting to grips with the ins and outs of strange materials known as time crystals; structures that buzz with movement for etern…
An extremely remote celestial body in a still young Universe, one-sixth the size of the present one. An object so dark that it is almost invisible,…
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has been hit with a lawsuit by US regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) .…
Earth's atmosphere and oceans are heating up beyond any previous point in human history, triggering a cascade of changes around the planet that o…
An artist’s impression of defect centers in diamond nanostructures. They can be used as quantum bits. A team of researchers from the Humboldt-Univers…