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Isparta et al. believe that the significant leftward bias in sleeping position in cats may have been evolutionarily driven by hemispheric asymmetries of threat processing. Image credit: Noah Dustin von Weissenfluh / Gleb Kuzmenko / Isparta et al., doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.043.

Two-Thirds of Domestic Cats Prefer to Sleep on Their Left Side, Study Shows

Jun 24, 2025 by Natali Anderson

New research led by scientists from the Ruhr-University Bochum, the University of Prince Edward Island, Ankara University and the University of Bari Aldo...

The ancient human footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, the United States. Image credit: Bennett et al., doi: 10.1126/science.abg7586.

Human Footprints at White Sands Are Up To 22,400 Years Old: Study

Jun 23, 2025 by News Staff

Discovery of human footprints at White Sands, New Mexico, dated to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, was a notable step in understanding the initial...

This artist’s impression shows the evolution of the Universe beginning with the Big Bang on the left followed by the appearance of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The formation of the first stars ends the cosmic dark ages, followed by the formation of galaxies. Image credit: M. Weiss / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Time Has Three Dimensions, New Theory Says

Jun 23, 2025 by News Staff

A new theory by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Gunther Kletetschka argues that time comes in three dimensions rather than just the single one...

Tetragonula carbonaria combs. Image credit: Tobias Smith.

Honey from Australian Stingless Bees Has Unique Antimicrobial Properties, Study Shows

Jun 23, 2025 by News Staff

Honey from Australian stingless bees, commonly referred to as sugarbag bees, has historically served as a food source. It is also a traditional remedy...

Mosat et al. report on the discovery of the new isotope seaborgium-257. Image credit: P. Mosat, GSI/FAIR.

New Superheavy Nucleus Discovered: Seaborgium-257

Jun 23, 2025 by News Staff

A team of physicists from Germany, Finland, India and Japan has discovered a new isotope of the synthetic chemical element seaborgium. Mosat et al. report...

This Hubble image shows UGC 11397, a barred spiral galaxy some 250 million light-years away in the constellation of Lyra. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / M.J. Koss / A.J. Barth.

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Image of Active Spiral Galaxy

Jun 23, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shot this image of UGC 11397, a barred spiral galaxy that is hosting an actively growing supermassive black hole. This...

An artist’s reconstruction of Litoria tylerantiqua (right) and the previously-described species Platyplectrum casca (left) from Murgon, south-eastern Queensland. Image: Samantha Yabsley, https://www.instagram.com/s.h.y_art.

55-Million-Year-Old Tree Frog Fossil Unearthed in Australia

Jun 20, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The discovery of Litoria tylerantiqua suggests that Australian treefrogs (pelodryadids) were present in Australia by the Early Eocene, when the continent...

This artist’s impression shows a field of Population III stars as they would have appeared a mere 100 million years after the Big Bang. Image credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / Spaceengine.

Cosmological Radio Signal Will Help Astronomers Detect Universe’s First-Generation Stars

Jun 20, 2025 by News Staff

The first generation of stars (Population III) must have formed from the unenriched gas that permeated the infant Universe. These stars produced the first...

An artist’s impression of a ‘Snowball Earth.’ Image credit: NASA.

Early Complex Life May Have Sheltered in Meltwater Ponds during Snowball Earth Episodes: Study

Jun 19, 2025 by News Staff

During periods known as Snowball Earth, between 720 and 635 million years ago, early eukaryotes — complex cellular lifeforms that eventually evolved...

The Bogong moth (Agrotis infusa), female. Image credit: Lucinda Gibson & Ken Walker, Museum Victoria / CC BY 3.0.

Bogong Moths Use Starry Night Sky as Compass, Scientists Say

Jun 19, 2025 by News Staff

Each spring, billions of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) escape hot conditions across southeast Australia by migrating up to 1,000 km to a place that they...

A reconstruction of Homo longi in his habitat. Image credit: Chuang Zhao.

Harbin Fossil Belongs to Denisovan Population, Two New Studies Suggest

Jun 19, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The famous ‘Harbin cranium’ dates back to at least 146,000 years ago and was previously assigned to a new species, Homo longi. A reconstruction of...

Canadian Eskimo dogs. Illustration by John James Audubon and John Bachman (1845-1848).

Ancient DNA Study Traces Incredible Journey of Dogs across Americas

Jun 18, 2025 by News Staff

Pre-contact Central and South American dogs (Canis familiaris) — all dogs preceding contact with European settlers — descended from a single...

This VLT/MUSE image shows a detailed, thousand-color image of NGC 253. Image credit: ESO / Congiu et al.

VLT Captures Most Detailed Image Ever of NGC 253

Jun 18, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed the active starburst (star-forming)...

Life reconstruction of Bolg amondol. Image credit: Cullen Townsend.

Armored, Large-Bodied Lizards Lived alongside Dinosaurs in Cretaceous North America

Jun 18, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

New fossilized specimens of monstersaurs — including a previously unknown genus and species, Bolg amondol — from the Kaiparowits Formation...

This conceptual illustration of a computer based on 2D molecules displays an actual scanning electron microscope image of the computer fabricated by Ghosh et al. Image credit: Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay / Penn State.

Researchers Develop World’s First Non-Silicon 2D Computer

Jun 18, 2025 by News Staff

Silicon has enabled advancements in semiconductor technology through miniaturization, but scaling challenges necessitate the exploration of new materials....

An artist’s rendition of Quetzalcoatlus northropi. Image credit: James Kuether.

Warm and Humid Climate Conditions Set Stage for Pterosaurs to Take to Skies 220 Million Years Ago

Jun 18, 2025 by News Staff

In new research, paleontologists combined data on the distribution of Triassic pterosauromorph (pterosaur + lagerpetid) fossils with information on the...

This image shows the Seyfert galaxy PG1211+143. Image credit: Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg / SIMBAD / SDSS.

Supermassive Black Hole in Luminous Seyfert Galaxy Shows Signs of ‘Over-Eating’

Jun 17, 2025 by News Staff

In a new paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers from the University of Leicester describe for the first...

Diagram of the Plateosaurus trossingensis skeleton as part of the Teoplati exhibit at the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich. Image credit: Dupuis et al., doi: 10.1186/s13358-025-00368-3.

Triassic Sauropodomorph Dinosaur Suffered from Severe Bone Tissue Infection

Jun 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A ream of paleontologists at the University of Zurich reports a chronic case of osteomyelitis (bone tissue infection) in Plateosaurus trossingensis, one...

An artist rendition of comet C/2014 UN271. Image credit: NSF / AUI / NSF / NRAO / M.Weiss.

ALMA Detects Molecular Activity in Largest Known Oort Cloud Comet

Jun 17, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have observed comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) — the largest...