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September 5, 2024
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Aug. 21, 2024 — New research shows that rainwater could have helped create a meshy wall around protocells 3.8 billion years ago, a critical step in the transition from tiny beads of RNA to every bacterium, plant, ...
Aug. 13, 2024 — A new interpretation of the runic inscription on the Forsa Ring (Forsaringen in Swedish), provides fresh insights into the Viking Age monetary system and represents the oldest documented value record in Scandinavia. The inscription describes how the ...
Aug. 9, 2024 — Scientists have recovered the first long section of rocks that originated in the Earth's mantle, the layer below the crust and the planet's largest component. The rocks will help unravel the mantle's ...
Aug. 8, 2024 — What distinguishes the growth and development patterns of early mammals of the Jurassic period? Paleontologists have been able to gauge the lifespan and growth rates of these ancient animals, and even when they reached maturity, by studying growth ...
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Sep. 4, 2024 — Scientists have suspected that modern humans have more genes to digest starch than our hunter-gatherer ancestors, but the amylase locus of the genome ...
Sep. 4, 2024 — Researchers have developed a model that captures the dynamics of human dispersal across the continent during the last Ice Age in unprecedented ...
Sep. 4, 2024 — Chemists offer a new explanation for how collagen in dinosaur bones may have survived millions of years: An atomic-level interaction prevents its ...
Aug. 30, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered a surprising genetic mechanism that influences the vibrant and complex patterns on butterfly wings. The team discovered that an RNA molecule, rather than a protein as ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — A 'tag-team' between the oceans and continents millions of years ago devastated marine life and altered the course of evolution on Earth, according ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — A collaborative research team has identified the world's first multiple Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in a single vortex of the superconducting ...
Aug. 30, 2024 — Geologists examined a submerged 25-foot bridge to tackle a long-lasting archaeological controversy: When humans settled on the islands in the western ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — A new study showing how a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by not one, but two different carnivores -- a crocodilian and a shark -- is revealing ...
Aug. 28, 2024 — An archaeogenetic study sheds new light on the isolated medieval community Las Gobas in northern Spain. Besides isolation and endogamy, the ...
Aug. 22, 2024 — The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped scientists deep dive 'into the blue' to fathom the 'triumph' of baleen whale evolution. The new study explores the key genetic ...
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Aug. 28, 2024 — A new study sheds light on how Viking Age societies in Norway and Denmark differed in their experiences with violence and the role social structures played in shaping those ...
Aug. 27, 2024 — A study is calling into question the reliability of the earthquake record of Cascadia. The researchers analyzed a selection of turbidite layers from the Cascadia subduction zone dating back about ...
Aug. 26, 2024 — Rocks are generating 'dark oxygen' in an area being explored for deep-sea ...
Aug. 26, 2024 — By analyzing foram shells recovered in drill cores, study led by geologists links rapid climate change that led to thermal maxima 50 million years ago to rising CO2 ...
Aug. 26, 2024 — Fossils are used to reconstruct evolutionary history, but not all animals and plants become fossils and many fossils are destroyed before we can find them (e.g., the rocks that contain the fossils ...
Aug. 26, 2024 — An international team of paleontologists has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different ...
Aug. 23, 2024 — A link between outgroup threats and ingroup cohesion has been considered since the time of Darwin to be an adaptation for group-based competition. During the years since, studies of all sorts -- from ...
Aug. 22, 2024 — Mono Lake is a beautiful but harsh environment, its salty and arsenic-laced water home to brine shrimp, alkali flies and little else. Scientists recently discovered an unsuspected resident, however, ...
Aug. 21, 2024 — When you get infected with a virus, some of the first weapons your body deploys to fight it were passed down to us from our microbial ancestors billions of years ago. According to new research, two ...
Aug. 21, 2024 — New research has revealed how an underwater avalanche grew more than 100 times in size causing a massive trail of destruction as it traveled 2000km across the Atlantic Ocean seafloor off the North ...
Aug. 21, 2024 — Archeologists say new findings might help resolve the debate about Clovis points and reshape how we think about what life was like roughly 13,000 years ago. After an extensive review of writings and ...
Aug. 20, 2024 — Australia's environmental laws are failing to stop high rates of tree clearing to make way for agriculture, development and ...
Aug. 20, 2024 — A new study shows how the mismatch between where fossils are preserved and where humans likely lived may influence our understanding of early human ...
Aug. 19, 2024 — Some of the attractive hues of brightly colored, cloth-bound books from the Victorian era come from dyes that could pose a health risk to readers, collectors or librarians. The latest research on ...
Aug. 16, 2024 — Previous scientific studies have indicated that North American dog lineages were replaced with European ones between 1492 and the present day. To better understand the timing of this replacement, ...
Aug. 16, 2024 — The asteroid that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago probably came from the outer solar ...
Aug. 16, 2024 — Researchers are setting out to challenge our misconceptions about the Dodo, one of the most well-known but poorly understood species of bird. Researchers have undertaken the most comprehensive review ...
Aug. 16, 2024 — The study found that the Port Askaig Formation, composed of layers of rock up to 1.1 km thick, was likely laid down between 662 to 720 million years ago during the Sturtian glaciation -- the first of ...
Aug. 15, 2024 — Decades after his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin became fascinated by why plants move as they grow -- spinning and twisting into corkscrews. Now, more than 150 years later, a new study may ...
Aug. 14, 2024 — A team of researchers has made strides in understanding the formation of massif-type anorthosites, enigmatic rocks that only formed during the middle part of Earth's history. These ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Monday, August 26, 2024
- Oxygen Produced in the Deep Sea Raises Questions About Extraterrestrial Life
- What Microscopic Fossilized Shells Tell Us About Ancient Climate Change
- Darwin's Fear Was Unjustified: Writing Evolutionary History by Bridging the Gaps a Big Issue
- Matching Dinosaur Footprints Found on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic Ocean
Friday, August 23, 2024
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
- Next Time You Beat a Virus, Thank Your Microbial Ancestors
- New Study Reveals Devastating Power and Colossal Extent of a Giant Underwater Avalanche Off the Moroccan Coast
- To Kill Mammoths in the Ice Age, People Used Planted Pikes, Not Throwing Spears, Researchers Say
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- Environmental Laws Failing to Slow Deforestation
- Fossil Hotspots in Africa Obscure a More Complete Picture of Human Evolution
Monday, August 19, 2024
Friday, August 16, 2024
- Ancient DNA Reveals Indigenous Dog Lineages Found at Jamestown, Virginia
- Tracking Down the Asteroid That Sealed the Fate of the Dinosaurs
- Rethinking the Dodo
- Scottish and Irish Rocks Confirmed as Rare Record of 'snowball Earth'
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
- Researchers Unveil Mysteries of Ancient Earth
- Revealing the Mysteries Within Microbial Genomes
- Historic Map Reveals How Mussel Farm Is Bringing Shellfish Reefs Back to the Seabed
- Impact of 700 Years of Inuvialuit Subsistence Hunting on Beluga Whales
- Great Scott! Stonehenge's Altar Stone Origins Reveal Advanced Ancient Britain
- Decoding the World's Largest Animal Genome
- Ecologists Put an Insect Group on Century-Old Map of Biodiversity
- Giant Fossil Seeds from Borneo Record Ancient Plant Migration
- Rare Archaeological Site Reveals 'surprising' Neanderthal Behaviour at Pyrenees Foothills
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
- House Call: A New Study Rethinks Early Christian Landmark
- Rewriting the Evolutionary History of Critical Components of the Nervous System
Monday, August 12, 2024
Friday, August 9, 2024
- Researchers Make Breakthrough in Understanding Species Abundance
- Millions of Years for Plants to Recover from Global Warming
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
- International Space Station Crew Carries out Archeological Survey in Space
- When Mammoths Roamed Vancouver Island
- Findings from First Archaeology Project in Space
- Giant Prehistoric Flying Reptile Took Off Using Similar Method to Bats, Study Finds
- Scientists Uncover Hidden Forces Causing Continents to Rise
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
- Carvings at Ancient Monument May Be World's Oldest Calendars
- Antarctic-Wide Survey of Plant Life to Aid Conservation Efforts
- Smallest Arm Bone in Human Fossil Record Sheds Light on the Dawn of Homo Floresiensis
Monday, August 5, 2024
- Hydraulic Lift Technology May Have Helped Build Egypt's Iconic Pyramid of Djoser
- Greenland Fossil Discovery Reveals Increased Risk of Sea-Level Catastrophe
- Study Analyzes Potato-Pathogen 'arms Race' After Irish Famine
- Nature's Design Marvel: How Shark Skin's Denticles Adapt to Wide Speed
- New Model Refutes Leading Theory on How Earth's Continents Formed
Friday, August 2, 2024
- How the Rising Earth in Antarctica Will Impact Future Sea Level Rise
- Sea Level Changes Shaped Early Life on Earth, Fossil Study Reveals
- What Gave the First Molecules Their Stability?
- Genetic Signatures of Domestication Identified in Pigs, Chickens
- Half a Billion-Year-Old Spiny Slug Reveals the Origins of Mollusks
- Demographics of North African Human Populations Unravelled Using Genomic Data and Artificial Intelligence
- Ancient Antarctic Microorganisms Are Aggressive Predators
- Fossil Shows How Penguins' Wings Evolved
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
- Underwater Mapping Reveals New Insights Into Melting of Antarctica's Ice Shelves
- Recent Volcanic 'fires' In Iceland Triggered by Storage and Melting in Crust
Monday, July 29, 2024
- A Blue Miracle: How Sapphires Formed in Volcanoes
- New Progress in Research Into Malignant Catarrhal Fever in Cattle
- Scientists Untangle Interactions Between the Earth's Early Life Forms and the Environment Over 500 Million Years
Friday, July 26, 2024
- The Ancestor of All Modern Birds Probably Had Iridescent Feathers
- Lampreys Possess a 'jaw-Dropping' Evolutionary Origin
Thursday, July 25, 2024
- Ancient Marine Animal Had Inventive Past Despite Being Represented by Few Species
- Rock Art and Archaeological Record Reveal Humans' Complex Relationship With Amazonian Animals
- Warming Has More Impact Than Cooling on Greenland's 'firn'
- Chemical Analyses Find Hidden Elements from Renaissance Astronomer Tycho Brahe's Alchemy Laboratory
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
- Komodo Dragons Have Iron-Coated Teeth to Rip Apart Their Prey
- How Rembrandt Combined Special Pigments for Golden Details of The Night Watch
- Scientists Assess How Large Dinosaurs Could Really Get
- New Study Supports Stable Mantle Chemistry Dating Back to Earth's Early Geologic History and Over Its Prodigious Evolution
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
- Taco-Shaped Arthropod Fossils Gives New Insights Into the History of the First Mandibulates
- Nanoscopic Imaging Aids in Understanding Protein, Tissue Preservation in Ancient Bones
- Hunter-Gatherers Kept an 'orderly Home' In the Earliest Known British Dwelling
Monday, July 22, 2024
- Ore-Some: New Date for Earth's Largest Iron Deposits Offers Clues for Future Exploration
- Human Occupation in Southeast Indonesia Dating Back 42,000 Years
Friday, July 19, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- Evidence for Butchery of Giant Armadillo-Like Mammals in Argentina 21,000 Years Ago
- Research Tracks 66 Million Years of Mammalian Diversity
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Monday, July 15, 2024
- History Shows That Humans Are Good for Biodiversity... Sometimes
- New Geological Datings Place the First European Hominids in the South of the Iberian Peninsula 1.3 Million Years Ago
Friday, July 12, 2024
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- 'A History of Contact': Geneticists Are Rewriting the Narrative of Neanderthals and Other Ancient Humans
- Early Pyrenean Neolithic Groups Applied Species Selection Strategies to Produce Bone Artifacts
- Unveiling 1,200 Years of Human Occupation in Canada's Arctic
- First Ever 3D Reconstruction of 52,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Chromosomes Thanks to Serendipitously Freeze-Dried Skin
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- A New Species of Extinct Crocodile Relative Rewrites Life on the Triassic Coastline
- Research Reveals the Most Complete Dinosaur Discovered in the UK in a Century
- The Plague May Have Caused the Downfall of the Stone Age Farmers
- Archaeologists Report Earliest Evidence for Plant Farming in East Africa
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
- First Local Extinction in the US Due to Sea Level Rise, Study Suggests
- Ancient Large Kangaroo Moved Mainly on Four Legs, According to New Research
- Life Underground Suited Newly Discovered Dinosaur Fine
Monday, July 8, 2024
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
- Giant Salamander-Like Creature Was a Top Predator in the Ice Age Before the Dinosaurs
- Extinct Humans Survived on the Tibetan Plateau for 160,000 Years
- Mighty Floods of the Nile River During Warmer and Wetter Climates