Europa’s subsurface ocean has long topped astrobiologists’ wish lists as a place to search for life beyond Earth. But new research led by a Rutgers University scientist suggests reaching that ocean — ...

New 3D computer simulations from ETH Zurich show that young rift flanks on Venus stay tall and steep, while older ones flatten out over time. “Rift valleys, which indicate tectonic activity, can be ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest snakes lived and complicating the long-running debate over whether their ...

An antbird long thought to be a single widespread species across the Amazon rainforest is, in fact, several different ones. Among them are two newly-described species — Cercomacra mura and Cercomacra ...

A team of physicists from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy has mathematically shown that our Universe is built on a type of understanding that exists beyond the reach of any ...

Paleontologists in China have discovered the skeletal remains of a remarkable new genus and species of huge-sized mamenchisaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic epoch. The newly-described species ...

Hemifusomes constitute up to 10% of vesicular organelles at the cell periphery but do not engage in canonical endocytic pathways, according to a team of biologists from the University of Virginia and ...

A new theory by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Gunther Kletetschka argues that time comes in three dimensions rather than just the single one we experience as continual forward progression, ...

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis roamed our planet during the Cretaceous period, some 86 million years ago. This dinosaur was a medium-sized, fleet-footed predator that evolved after the extinction of other ...

Archaeopteryx lived approximately 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period. The Chicago specimen is the smallest one known, only about the size of a pigeon. Its tiny, hollow bones are ...

Up until now, the accepted understanding about these egg-laying was that they were both descended from a land-bound ancestor. And while the platypus ancestors became semiaquatic, the echidnas stayed ...

“To paraphrase the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, who famously said Panta Rhei — everything moves, we thought that perhaps Panta Kykloutai — everything turns,” said Dr. István Szapudi, an ...