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A museum fossil named after the Wamanda people is forcing scientists to reconsider the age of Tanzania’s earliest dinosaur candidates.
A museum fossil named after the Wamanda people is forcing scientists to reconsider the age of Tanzania’s earliest dinosaur candidates.
Rebecca Shavitupda
Africa’s crust is thinning beneath Turkana, where tectonic change may also explain the region’s remarkable human fossil record.
Green ImpactAfrica’s Turkana Rift has entered a critical stage of continental breakupJoseph Shavit
The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai-volcanic eruption on 15 january 2022. Image taken from a video of the eruption.
DiscoveriesHunga Tonga’s record-breaking eruption removed 900 metric tons of methane per dayJoshua Shavit
Scientists say a massive lake system in South America could become a global laboratory for studying climate change and pollution.
Green ImpactSouth American coastal lakes could transform climate change researchRebecca Shavit
Tiny pH-sensitive containers helped scratched water-based coatings keep corrosion at bay during demanding saltwater tests.
InnovationsSmart nanocoating slows rust corrosion by more than 600 timesRebecca Shavit
Mercury may have shrunk up to 30% more than estimated because crater debris hides wrinkles created as the planet cooled.
SpaceMercury’s cratered surface has been hiding evidence of a much smaller planetJoseph Shavit
Tiny changes in the Moon’s orbit could reveal gravitational waves in a frequency range that existing observatories struggle to detect.
SpaceScientists find a new way to search for gravitational waves using the MoonJoseph Shavit
A million-person Moon city could exhaust even a generous lunar water supply in about a century despite 98% recycling.
SpaceThe moon could support permanent settlements, just not the giant cities Elon Musk envisionsJoshua Shavit
New models show how a hypothetical Venus moon could have spiraled inward and disappeared without another catastrophic impact.
SpaceVenus may have swallowed its own moon, new models findsJoseph Shavit
Fourteen Spanish tail vertebrae reveal a European Diplodocus and strengthen evidence for Jurassic trans-Atlantic dinosaur dispersal.
DiscoveriesFirst Diplodocus found outside North America rewrites dinosaur migration historyRebecca Shavit
Scientists named a new genus of Australian plant bugs Swiftiephylus, inspired by Taylor Swift’s blonde hair, red lipstick and albums.
DiscoveriesTaylor Swift inspires scientists to name a new genus of Australian insectsJoseph Shavit
Scientists find Earth’s response to solar storms may not have a limit, suggesting stronger risks to modern technology.
SpaceExtreme solar storms could hit Earth harder than scientists expectedJoseph Shavit
Illustration of a tyrannosaur preying on an ancient diving bird.
DiscoveriesA feather found in dinosaur poop could help explain why birds survived the dinosaur extinctionJoshua Shavit
The experiments were carried out using this particle accelerator at the PSI in Villigen.
DiscoveriesETH Zurich physicists built an ‘atomic cannon’ to put Einstein’s theory of gravity to the testJoseph Shavit
Gladstone researchers found that human stem cell-derived spinal neurons can connect with injured breathing circuits in rats.
HealthStem cell-derived neurons offer a new path toward spinal cord repairJoshua Shavit
Snail prey, geography and limited movement helped shape distinct beetle body forms across Japan.
DiscoveriesBeetles across Japan took different evolutionary paths to solve the same feeding problemRebecca Shavit
Fusion-loop mutations shifted Zika vaccine protection onto CD8 T cells while weakening antibodies against mature virus.
HealthZika vaccine tweak triggered an unexpected immune defenseJoseph Shavit