In a new paper, planetary researchers from Texas A&M University and the University of Washington introduce a new thermodynamic concept called the centotectic and investigate the stability of liquids ...

On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe soared just 6.1 million km (3.8 million miles) above the surface of our home star, racing through the solar atmosphere at 692,000 km per hour (430,000 ...

Using data from the APOGEE survey, astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, the University of Vienna and Paris Observatory have reconstructed the properties of ‘hidden’ stars ...

Paleontologists from the Western University of Health Sciences, Brigham Young University, the Arizona Museum of Natural History and Auburn University have described a new specimen of Haplocanthosaurus ...

In 2022, biologists with Conservation International conducted a survey that uncovered a trove of biodiversity in the heart of the Alto Mayo landscape, which covers about 780,700 hectares (1.9 million ...

Conservation requires accurate information about species occupancy, populations and behavior. However, gathering these data for elusive, solitary species, such as leopards (Panthera pardus), is often ...

Dubbed Archaeocursor asiaticus, the newly-discovered species is the earliest-diverging ornithischian dinosaur yet discovered in Asia, according to a team of paleontologists from China. Archaeocursor ...

With the exception of ChatGPT 4o, almost all publicly available large language models subjected to a test called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) showed signs of mild cognitive impairment.

Nearly 250 years ago, the very first pterosaur fossil was found in a quarry in northern Bavaria, Germany. Dubbed Pterodactylus, this 150-million-year-old fossil provided the first evidence for an ...

Using a catalog of 26,041 white dwarfs observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have confirmed a long-predicted effect in these ancient ultradense stars. Stars that are not massive enough ...

Mars is located at the extreme limits of brine stability; and only a combination of the most favorable environmental conditions and lowest eutectic temperature salts allows for brines to be at least ...

The newly-described species lived in what is now Europe during the Early Eocene epoch, approximately 55 million years ago. Scientifically named Apachyus madseni, the ancient insect was nearly 1.9 cm ...