Reconstruction of the appearance in life of a gorgonopsian in a floodplain of the Permian of Mallorca. Credit: Henry Sutherland Sharpe An international research team led by the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals (MUCBO | MBCN) have described a fossil animal that lived between 270 and […]
Credit: Molecular Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.10.033 Researchers at the University of Würzburg have discovered a process that breaks down mRNA molecules in the human body particularly efficiently. This could be useful, for example, in the treatment of cancer. The study is published in Molecular Cell. They are like the architects of our body: messenger ribonucleic […]
This Florida couple bought a vacant lot for $17,500 — then discovered they’re barred by law from building on it When Donna Hartl and her husband purchased a vacant lot in Brooksville, Florida, they thought they’d found the perfect location for their dream home. Nestled between Islewood Drive and Richbarn Road, the $17,500 property seemed […]
Mysterious pairs of “rogue,” Jupiter-size objects may have arisen from embryonic stars, a new study suggests. The theory could explain some characteristics of these Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs), such as why members of each pair are so widely separated, but more data is needed to confirm the idea. The James Webb Space Telescope spotted these […]
A ghostly white, unusually large predator has been discovered deep inside one of Earth’s deepest ocean trenches. Found at a staggering depth of 25,900 feet (7,902 meters) in the eastern Pacific Ocean’s Atacama Trench, researchers have discovered a new species of large predatory amphipod, Dulcibella camanchaca. This shrimp-like crustacean, which is 1.57 inches (4 centimeters) […]
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole – specifically, the disk of material swirling around it, and the shifting plasma region called the corona. The stellar-mass black hole, part of the binary system Swift J1727.8-1613, was discovered in the summer of 2023 […]
Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensismeaning “big head,” based partly on a very large skull found in China. But what is this new species, and how does it help paleoanthropologists understand hominin variation in the Middle Pleistocene epoch about 300,000 to 50,000 years ago? After our […]
An asteroid that fell to Earth in 2022 and exploded in a stunning green fireball above Canada was the smallest space rock ever properly measured, a new study suggests. The diminutive asteroid, which was only discovered a few hours before it blew up, was around the same size as an average domestic cat. In the […]
Researchers doing reconnaissance in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary CTWS where they discovered evidence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. Credit: Belize River East Archaeology (BREA) Project An archaeologist from the University of New Hampshire and her team have collected data which indicates the presence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. Discovered in the Crooked […]
Two newly discovered stone circles, built about 5,000 years ago in what is now the southwest of England, are the latest to show that Stonehenge was not the only Stone Age circle built in the region. The new finds, according to Alan Endacottthe independent archaeologist who found them, reinforce the idea that prehistoric people constructed […]
