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Written in Greek, this papyrus is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman...

Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt, and the only potential ocean world in the inner Solar System. A global scan for organic-rich sites...

Named Prionailurus kurteni, the new cat species is the smallest known fossil member of the family Felidae to date. Prionailurus kurteni was as small as...

Heating of complex organic matter in the presence of water may be an important source of Titan’s abundant atmospheric nitrogen and methane gases, according...

Physicists with the CMS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have tested whether top quarks adhere to Albert Einstein’s special theory of...

Labrys portucalensis F11, a strain of aerobic bacterium from the Xanthobacteraceae family, can break down and transform at least three types of per- and...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking photo of a little-known galaxy called WISEA J070815.11+210422.3. SN 2022aajn is visible as...

Paleoanthropologists have found 1.95-million-year-old cut-marked bones that appear to have been made by early hominins using stone tools at the site of...

Paleontologists have found ancient DNA and spores of truffle-like fungi, including at least one colorful species, inside two coprolites of the upland moa...

In July 2024, a home security camera in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth. According...

Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems for approximately 160 million years, but their biogeographic origin remains poorly understood. The...

Understanding food chains in ancient ecosystems is one of the goals of paleoecology. Direct evidence for these interactions is rare and includes fossils...

The near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 is on an Earth-like orbit that remained in the immediate vicinity of our planet for several months at the end of 2024. 2024 PT5...

In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, planetary researchers used high-resolution images and compositional data captured by orbiters to...

Paleontologists have discovered a set of ancient bear footprints in Honseca Cave, northern Spain. Although distinguishing cave bear from brown bear tracks...

Many species of birds use shed snake skin in nest construction, but this behavior is poorly understood. In new research, ornithologists at Cornell University...

A nearly complete but strongly flattened skull of the ancient bird species Diatryma geiselensis has been discovered, after being misidentified and kept...

The source of the newly-detected fast radio burst, FRB 20240209A, is in the distant outskirts of an ancient elliptical galaxy, which is located 2 billion...

A massive flood called the Zanclean megaflood ended the Messinian salinity crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, according to new...