C.Marsicano Gaiasia jennyaea newly discovered freshwater predator with a body length of 4.5 meters, lurked in the swamps and lakes about 280 million years ago. Its broad, flattened head had powerful jaws full of enormous fangs, ready to catch any prey that had the misfortune to swim by. The problem is that, as far as … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, our species emerged in Africa. Research into the DNA of living humans has shown that early Homo sapiens remained on the continent for a long time, with a small group leaving only 50,000 years ago to populate the rest of the world. However, these findings raise a puzzling question: … Read more
Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen hydrothermal vent system located in an unlikely place on the Arctic ocean floor. The deep-sea vents, which pump out scorching water and mysterious metals, are in an area that researchers thought was geologically dead. The newly discovered vents, named after various entities from Norse mythology, lie at a depth of … Read more
Astronomers have discovered that our galaxy may be bigger than we first thought. A new model of the Milky Way has revealed that our galaxy is wider than we thought, according to a new paper in the journal Natural astronomy. The researchers found that the bulge at the center of our galaxy is less densely … Read more
As the New Horizons spacecraft continues its epic journey to explore the Kuiper Belt, it has a study partner here on Earth. The Subaru Telescope on Hawaii’s Big Island is deploying its Hyper Suprime Cam imager to view the Kuiper Belt along the spacecraft’s path. The observations show that the Kuiper Belt extends farther than … Read more
The half-radius of the Milky Way compared to that of local disk galaxies. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2024). DOI file: 10.1038/s41550-024-02315-7 A small team of astronomers from the University of Yunnan, the University of Utah, New Mexico State University and the University of St. Andrews has developed a new model of the Milky Way based on … Read more
Additional data shows the economy performed better than first measured between January and March, but attention is shifting to supporting the recovery as the clock ticks towards next Thursday’s elections. By means of James Sillars, business reporter @SkyNewsBiz Friday, June 28, 2024 08:22, UK Britain’s recovery from recession in the first three months of the … Read more
Spherical and star-shaped gold nanoparticles (top) and colon cancer cells after approximately five hours of exposure to them (bottom respectively). The photo at the bottom left proves that the cancer cells survived despite the small size of the spherical nanoparticles. False colors. Credit: IFJ PAN Gold particles the size of billionths of a meter are … Read more
Recent studies have shown that a doubling of CO2 levels in the atmosphere could lead to a significantly greater increase in global temperatures than previously estimated. This finding comes from an analysis of sediments from the Pacific Ocean near California conducted by researchers at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and the universities … Read more
Spiral galaxy, NGC 4303, seen from above. Pink, orange and red galactic long-range images. Elements … [+] of this image provided by NASA (combination of images observed by the Webb and Hubble telescopes) Getty Like most good science, large telescopes often create more riddles than they solve. That’s certainly been the case with NASA’s Webb … Read more