With four tiny legs and an extraordinarily long body, a fossil of the snake-like lizard Tetrapodophis amplectus has created controversy. Credit: Julius Csotonyi More than 120...
Black hole artists impression. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser) Our telescopes have never detected a black hole more massive than twenty times the mass of the Sun....
The Delta Covid variant may mutate itself into self-extinction and has already done so in one part of the world, scientists claim. Japan is recording an...
Young childrens ability to laugh and make jokes has been mapped by age for the first time using data from a new study involving nearly 700...
To understand how the universe formed, astronomers have created AbacusSummit, more than 160 simulations of how gravity may have shaped the distribution of dark matter. Collectively...
Intestinal stem cells in green, cell division in red. Credit: Helmholtz Munich / Anika Böttcher The intestine is essential for maintaining our energy balance and is...
Princeton researchers created the worlds purest sample of gallium arsenide, a semiconductor used in specialized systems such as satellites. This photo shows the sample wired inside...
Hubble Space Telescope captures a protostar in the reflection nebula IC 2631.Credit: NASA, ESA, T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing:...
Scientists have been able to get a rare glimpse into a crucial, early stage of human development by analyzing an embryo in its third week after...
Many of the heaviest stars in the Universe will end their lives in a bright explosion, known as a supernova, which briefly outshines the rest of...