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May 5, 2025 by News Staff

Regular light-dark cycles greatly affect organisms, and events like eclipses induce distinctive physiological and behavioral shifts. While well documented in animals, plant behavior during eclipses remains largely unexplored. In their new research, scientists from Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and Australia monitored multiple spruce trees (Picea abies) to assess their individual and collective bioelectrical responses to a solar eclipse. Study location...

May 5, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A beautiful new photo from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3596. This Hubble image shows NGC 3596, an intermediate spiral...

May 2, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Named Obelignathus septimanicus, the new species inhabited the European Archipelago around 72 million years ago (Cretaceous period) and belonged to a family...

May 2, 2025 by News Staff

New research from the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz suggests the ability to keep time is not unique to our species. Ronan...

May 1, 2025 by News Staff

Pterosaurs are often imagined soaring over the heads of dinosaurs, but a new analysis of their fossilized footprints shows that some of these flying reptiles...

May 1, 2025 by News Staff

A multinational team of neuroscientists has tested two competing theories of consciousness: the integrated information theory (IIT) and the global neuronal...

May 1, 2025 by News Staff

In exploring how crystals form, researchers at New York University came across an unusual, rod-shaped crystal that hadn’t been identified before. Zangenite....

Apr 30, 2025 by News Staff

This apex predator is a type of sebecid crocodyliform with South American origins, according to new research led by the Florida Museum of Natural History. Sebecid...

Apr 30, 2025 by News Staff

Previously believed to have occurred 1.2 billion years ago, this ancient impact created the Stac Fada Member, a layer of rock that holds vital clues to...

Apr 30, 2025 by News Staff

Scientists at the University of Florida have generated the chromosome-scale genome assembly for the primocane-fruiting, thornless tetraploid blackberry...

Apr 30, 2025 by News Staff

Up until now, the accepted understanding about these egg-laying was that they were both descended from a land-bound ancestor. And while the platypus ancestors...

Apr 30, 2025 by News Staff

Neurons communicate by firing electrical pulses, but scientists have found hints that neurons may transmit light as well. Researchers at the University...

Apr 28, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The specimen is the first and most complete partial dinosaur skeleton currently known from Scotland, according to a team of paleontologists led by National...

Apr 28, 2025 by News Staff

Vesta, the second largest asteroid in our Solar System, has not experienced full differentiation into a metallic core, silicate mantle and basaltic crust,...

Apr 28, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the massive spiral galaxy NGC 1961. This Hubble image...

Apr 28, 2025 by News Staff

University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson proposes a new way to think about gravity — not just as a pull, but as something that happens when...

Apr 28, 2025 by News Staff

Long invisible to astronomers, the newly-discovered molecular cloud is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the Sun...

Apr 25, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered 50- to 25-million-year-old fossilized footprints of invertebrates and vertebrates, including a false saber-toothed cat...

Apr 25, 2025 by News Staff

Neotropical crocodiles inhabit a broad geographic range with populations spanning from coastal, inland, and insular locations. In new research, scientists...

Apr 24, 2025 by News Staff

High-energy photons produced deep in gamma-ray burst jets emerging from a collapsed star could dissolve the outer stellar layers into free neutrons, causing...