Planetary researchers analyzing images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have found evidence that liquid nitrogen may still ...

Paleontologists working in southern China have identified a new species of sauropod dinosaur that appears to belong to a ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has stumbled on the largest patch of polygon-shaped ground fractures it has ever seen on Mars, a ...

Today, there are more than 8 billion human beings on the planet. Our species dominate Earth’s landscapes, and our activities are driving large numbers of other species to extinction. Had a researcher ...

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 ...

According to a team of astrophysicists led by Eric Lerner from Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, the Universe is not expanding at all. In their study, the scientists tested one of the striking predictions ...

The end-Cretaceous mass extinction, which included the elimination of all non-avian dinosaurs, occurred after the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid and during a stretch of the Deccan Traps volcanism in ...

Researchers from Lanzhou University in China have shown that the slime mold Physarum polycephalum is able to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem, a combinatorial test with exponentially increasing ...

A Brazilian anthropologist has reconstructed the face of the archaic human species Homo longi from a well-preserved skull discovered in northeastern China in the 1930s. Homo longi is an extinct ...