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An artist’s reconstruction of Eotephradactylus mcintireae, other animals, and plants found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, the United States. Image credit: Brian Engh.

Unusual Bonebed in Arizona Reveals North America’s Earliest-Known Pterosaur

Jul 8, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized jawbone of a new pterosaur species alongside hundreds of other fossils — including one of the world’s...

An AI impression of a dark dwarf. Image credit: Gemini AI.

Dark Dwarfs May Reveal True Nature of Dark Matter

Jul 8, 2025 by News Staff

Dark dwarfs are hypothetical dark matter-powered objects that formed from the cooling of brown dwarfs, according to a team of astronomers from Durham University,...

Life reconstruction of Zhongyuansaurus junchangi. Image credit: Connor Ashbridge / CC BY 4.0.

New Species of Armored Dinosaur Identified in China

Jul 7, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new species of the ankylosaurid dinosaur genus Zhongyuansaurus using a specimen found in China’s Henan province. Life...

The structure of low-density amorphous ice: many tiny crystallites (white) are concealed in the amorphous material (blue). Image credit: Michael B. Davies, UCL & University of Cambridge.

Interstellar Amorphous Ice Contains Tiny Crystals, New Research Reveals

Jul 7, 2025 by News Staff

Low-density amorphous ice is one of the most common solid materials in the Universe and a key material for understanding the many famous anomalies of liquid...

Donaldjohanson as seen by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft from a range of about 2,700 km (1,700 miles), about 3.2 minutes before closest approach on April 20, 2025. The illumination conditions, with the Sun almost behind Lucy, greatly reduce the contrast of topographic details. Image credit: NASA / Goddard / SwRI / Johns Hopkins APL.

Lucy Provides Full View of Main-Belt Asteroid Donaldjohanson

Jul 7, 2025 by News Staff

NASA’s Lucy mission continues to analyze images collected during the spacecraft’s April 20, 2025 encounter with the carbonaceous asteroid Donaldjohanson. Donaldjohanson...

The cases presented by Towers et al. are among the first recorded where wild killer whales (Orcinus orca) used prey and other items to instigate interactions with humans. Image credit: Towers et al., doi: 10.1037/com0000422.

Wild Killer Whales Sometimes Offer Food to Humans, Scientists Say

Jul 7, 2025 by News Staff

In a paper published online in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, marine biologists report on 34 interactions spanning two decades in which killer...

This Hubble image shows Abell 209, a galaxy cluster located about 2.8 billion light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. The color image includes both optical and infrared observations from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Twelve filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / M. Postman / P. Kelly.

Hubble Spots More Than Hundred Galaxies in Abell 209

Jul 7, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Abell 209 is a massive galaxy cluster located about 2.8 billion light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. This Hubble image shows Abell 209, a galaxy...

The discovery image of 3I/ATLAS from the ATLAS telescope. Image credit: University of Hawai’i.

Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Jul 4, 2025 by News Staff

3I/ATLAS is only the third object of its kind ever observed, following the interstellar asteroid 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov...

Pristimantis chinguelas. Image credit: Chávez et al., doi: 10.3897/evolsyst.9.148522.

Herpetologists Discover Three New Species of Frogs in Peru

Jul 4, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Herpetologists have described three new species of the frog genus Pristimantis from the rugged, misty highlands of northwestern Peru. Pristimantis chinguelas....

The wooden tools found at the site of Gantangqing in China. Image credit: Liu et al., doi: 10.1126/science.adr8540.

300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Discovered in China

Jul 3, 2025 by News Staff

Archaeologists have unearthed an assemblage of 35 wooden tools — digging sticks and small, complete, hand-held pointed tools — at the Early...

This artist’s impression of the formation of a galaxy in the early Universe featuring clumps of star-forming galaxies, with carbon gas shown in red, and dark dust shown in black. This process is documented in detail throughout the many galaxies observed in ALMA’s CRISTAL survey. Image credit: NSF / AUI / NRAO / B. Saxton.

ALMA Shines New Light on Galaxies in Early Universe

Jul 3, 2025 by News Staff

As part of the CRISTAL (CII Resolved ISM in STar-forming galaxies with ALMA) survey, astronomers peered back to when the Universe was only about one billion...

This image, taken with the iTelescope.Net T72 telescope at Rio Hurtado, Chile, on July 2, 2025, shows the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Image credit: Filipp Romanov / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Astronomers Discover Third-Ever Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLAS

Jul 3, 2025 by News Staff

After the interstellar asteroid 1I/ʻOumuamua and the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, 3I/ATLAS is the third object and the second comet from outside the...

An artist’s impression of the young planetary system HIP 67522. Image credit: J. Fohlmeister, AIP.

Recently-Discovered Exoplanet Triggers Flares on Its Parent Star

Jul 2, 2025 by News Staff

The hot-Jupiter exoplanet HIP 67522b orbits its parent star, HIP 67522, so tightly that it appears to cause frequent flares from the star’s surface,...

Nebamun hunting in the marshes with his wife and daughter, part of a wall painting from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun, Thebes, New Kingdom, 1350 BC. Image credit: Werner Forman Archive / Bridgeman Images.

Researchers Sequence Whole Genome of Ancient Egyptian

Jul 2, 2025 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has sequenced the whole genome from an adult male Egyptian who lived between over 4,500 years ago — a few centuries...

This image, taken with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5 -- the expanding remains of a star that exploded hundreds of years ago in a double-detonation. Calcium is shown in blue, and it is arranged in two concentric shells. These two layers indicate that the star exploded with a double-detonation. Image credit: ESO / Das et al. / Noll et al.

VLT Captures Image of Double-Detonation Supernova Remnant

Jul 2, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have imaged SNR 0509-67.5, a very young (300-350 years old) remnant of Type Ia supernova, and spotted...

Arabidopsis plants growing in a greenhouse. Image credit: Elena Zhukova / UCR.

Biologists Uncover How Plants Sense Heat during Day

Jul 1, 2025 by News Staff

New research led by University of California, Riverside’s Professor Meng Chen shows that plants rely on multiple heat-sensing systems and that sugar...

Nielsen et al. find lactose intolerance may link consuming dairy, nightmares, and poor sleep. Image credit: Micha HNBS.

Study Finds Association between Lactose Intolerance and Nightmares

Jul 1, 2025 by News Staff

In a new study, researchers questioned 1,082 students at MacEwan University about the quality of their sleep, their eating habits, and any perceived link...

This Webb/MIRI image shows the central part of the starburst galaxy Messier 82. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / A. Bolatto.

Webb Zooms In on Central Region of Messier 82

Jul 1, 2025 by News Staff

Using the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a stunning infrared image of central...

This lithograph shows Loligo forbesii, a species of squid in the order Myopsida. Image credit: Comingio Merculiano.

Study: Squids Originated and Rapidly Radiated by 100 Million Years Ago

Jul 1, 2025 by News Staff

Using an innovative digital fossil-mining approach, paleontologists analyzed more than 250 fossil beaks from 40 ancient squid species. Their results suggest...