During the Triassic period (252-201 million years ago) mammal-like reptiles called therapsids co-existed with ancestors to dinosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, pterosaurs, turtles, frogs, and lizards. One group...
Researchers reporting in Current Biology on November 19 have found that a vast array of regularly spaced, still-inhabited termite mounds in northeastern Brazil — covering an...
An international team lead by researchers from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen have discovered a 31-km wide...
A faint drawing of an animal in a Borneo cave has been determined as the world’s oldest example of figurative art. The painting, on the wall...
Neurons in the human brain receive electrical signals from thousands of other cells, and long neural extensions called dendrites play a critical role in incorporating all...
Most of the skull from a prized 12,000-year-old fossil nicknamed Luzia has been recovered from the wreckage of a fire in Brazil’s National Museum. The 200-year-old...
When you think of robotics, you likely think of something rigid, heavy, and built for a specific purpose. New “Robotic Skins” technology developed by Yale researchers...
To see under starlight and moonlight, the retina of the eye changes both the software and hardware of its light-sensing cells to create a kind of...
NASA counted down Saturday to the launch of its $1 billion ICESat-2 mission, using advanced lasers to uncover the true depth of the melting of Earth’s...
An exploration to one of the deepest places on earth has captured rare footage of what is believed to be three new species of the elusive...
There’s a 70% chance of a recurrence of the El Niño weather event before the end of this year, according to the World Meteorological Organisation. The...