Denisovan Woman Gets Her First Portrait Thanks to DNA, Reports
More than 100,000 years ago, modern humans in Eurasia lived alongside Neanderthals and Denisovans, two other hominins that have since gone extinct. While much...
Bone Hormone Sparks Fight-or-Flight Response in Mice (Study)
Bones are more than just the scaffolding for our body lumps. Bones are rigid organs filled with a honeycomb-like matrix, and while they do...
Asian giant hornets that feed on bees spotted on Island
Asian giant hornets, which feed on honeybees and can wipe out entire hives, have been found in the Nanaimo area, the first time the...
Scientists detect radio signal coming from massive galaxy far, far away
Oftentimes astronomers focus on distant galaxies in an effort to better understand the layout of the universe, and perhaps even tell us something about...
Exploding Star observed by Chinese astronomers over 2,000 years ago
An international team of astronomers has identified the ancient remains of a nova inside a galactic globular cluster.
Using the Very Large Telescope's MUSE instrument,...
NASA Says Aluminum Fraud Caused $700 Million Satellite Failures (Reports)
The destruction of two Taurus rockets and the NASA satellites they carried is an especially frustrating failure in the annals of space exploration.
During each...
Blue whale fossil 85 discovered, marine giant lived about 1.5 million years ago
The blue whale is not only the largest animal alive today, it is the largest one that has ever lived. Now, analysis of a...
Antidote found for venomous box jellyfish (Reports)
Australian and Chinese scientists have identified an antidote to the venom of the much-feared box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) that, in mice at least, suppresses...
Egyptian Tomb Found With Dozens of Mummies (Reports)
Mummified remains of dozens of ancient Egyptian men, women, and children have been revealed at a newly discovered tomb in southeast Egypt alongside artifacts,...
Study: Astrophysicists find elusive molecule that ‘kick-started’ the universe
“It was the beginning of chemistry,” said David Neufeld, a professor of molecular astrophysics at John Hopkins University and co-author of a study...