For bees and flowers, tongue size matters
The research group came up with an equation to predict tongue length from a combination of body size and taxonomic relationships. Bartomeus will explain the equation and the usefulne...
Evolution of marine crocodilians constrained by ocean temperatures
The ancestors of today’s crocodiles colonised the seas during warm phases and became extinct during cold phases, according to a new Anglo-French study which establishes a link betwee...
European Space Agency’s Philae Probe Sends Astounding First Images from Comet Landing
Continue reading below Our Featured Videos Of the successful landing, ESA’s Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain said in a statement: “ESA and its Rosetta mission partners achieved...
Climate change and the soil
If true, this would release even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, where it would accelerate global warming. Surprisingly, long-term warming had little effect on the overall s...
After 85-year search, massless particle with promise for next-generation electronics found
The researchers report in the journal Science July 16 the first observation of Weyl fermions, which, if applied to next-generation electronics, could allow for a nearly free and effi...
A hellacious two weeks on Jupiter’s moon Io
Aside from Earth, is the only known place in the solar system with volcanoes erupting extremely hot lava like that seen on Earth. De Pater’s long-time colleague and coauthor Ashley D...
Tooth serves as evidence of 220-million-year-old attack
Stephanie Drumheller, an earth and planetary sciences lecturer, and her Virginia Tech colleagues Michelle Stocker and Sterling Nesbitt examined 220-million-year-old bite marks in the...
The economic territory of Upper Palaeolithic groups is specified by flint
Never before had the mobility patterns and management of lithic resources in the Upper Palaeolithic been determined so precisely. The study of flint remains found in the open-air Ame...
Skull reconstruction sheds new light on tetrapod transition from water to land
The results publish March 11, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Laura Porro from University of Bristol, UK, and colleagues. This species is crucial for understanding the an...
Shrinking dinosaurs evolved into flying birds
A new study led by an Adelaide scientist has revealed how massive, meat-eating, ground-dwelling dinosaurs − the theropods − evolved into agile flyers: they just kept shrinking and sh...
Scientists report first semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus
In addition, Spinosaurus will be the subject of a new exhibition at the National Geographic Museum, opening Sept. 12, as well as a National Geographic/NOVA special airing on PBS Nov....
New DNA study unravels the settlement history of the New World Arctic
In this study, researchers show that the Paleo-Eskimo, who lived in the Arctic from about 5,000 years ago until about 700 years ago, represented a distinct wave of migration, separat...
Mountains of height 11,000 ft found on Pluto
A new close-up image of a region near Pluto’s equator reveals a range of youthful mountain, in a picture released by NASA in Laurel, Maryland July 15, NASA’s New Horizons probe disc...
Large Hadron Collider: New physics in sight?
The LHC is looking for signs of physics beyond the standard model, such as supersymmetry, dark matter and new particles. In its second run, the Large Hadron Collider, among other thi...
How the mammoth got its wool: Genetic changes are identified
In a study published in Cell Reports on July 2, 2015, researchers determined the whole-genome sequence of two woolly mammoths and three modern Asian elephants, predicted the function...
Highest altitude archaeological sites in the world explored in the Peruvian Andes
There is also a Pucuncho workshop site where stone tools were made at 4,355 metres above sea level. And yet, the findings indicate that people were living in these high altitude zone...
Fossil of multicellular life moves evolutionary needle back 60 million years
A Virginia Tech geobiologist with collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found evidence in the fossil record that complex multicellularity appeared in living things ...
Elusive New Pentaquark Particle Discovered After 50-Year Hunt
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, have found proof of the existence of the pentaquark, an elusive subatomic particle that was first proposed ...
Earlier Stone Age artifacts found in Northern Cape of South Africa
These discoveries were made by archaeologists from the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa and the University of Toronto (U of T), in collaboration with the McGregor Museum i...
Forces of martian nature
Science & Exploration Forces of martian nature 10/07/2014 10647 views 124 likes The surface of Mars is pocked and scarred with giant impact craters and rocky ridges, as shown in...
Curiosity spots a heavy metal meteorite
2-meter wide iron meteorite dubbed “Lebanon,” as imaged by Curiosity’s ChemCam and Mastcam on May 25, 2014. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/LPGNantes/CNRS/IAS/MSSS Talk abou...
Beyond Pluto—New Horizons’ mission is not over yet
Pluto: Once shattered, twice shy Like our own Earth, Pluto has an oversized satellite, Charon. But how did this satellite system come to be? It also seems very unlikely they were ca...
What is the Kuiper Belt?
But instead, in the history of the solar system, when Neptune formed it led to these objects not being able to get together, so it’s just this belt of material out beyond Neptune. Di...
‘Surfer’s Waves’ Found in Space
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves are the classic surfer wave pattern seen throughout nature where a fast fluid rushes over a slower-moving fluid. THEMIS provided the observations that allowed ...
Pluto, now blurry, will become clear with NASA flyby
Artist’s concept, obtained courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI), of the New Horizons spacecraft as it appro...