The Atacama Trench stretches along the eastern South Pacific Ocean, plunging to depths exceeding 8,000 m off the coast of northern Chile. The hadal zone, or the deepest 45% of the ocean (6,000-11,000 ...

Altermagnetism is a distinct form of magnetic order where the tiny constituent magnetic building blocks align antiparallel to their neighbors, but the structure hosting each one is rotated compared to ...

Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi lived in what is now Africa during the Eocene epoch, some 47 million years ago. The new species belongs to Trogonophidae, a small family of limbless, carnivorous, ...

New research led by University of Bristol scientists sheds light on how lepidosaurs — the most diverse clade of tetrapods, including lizards and snakes — have evolved remarkably varied jaw shapes, ...

Paleontologists from Sweden and Poland have examined hundreds of fossilized samples of feces and vomit from the Polish Basin in central Europe to reconstruct the rise of the dinosaurs to become the ...

Dark comets are small bodies with no detected coma that have significant accelerations explainable by outgassing of volatiles, analogous to the first interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua. These ...

Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, the newly-discovered galaxy existed approximately 600 million years after the Big Bang and consisted of a least 10 star clusters. The most distant galaxies detected are ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three ultra-massive galaxies — nearly as massive as our own Milky Way Galaxy — already in place within the first billion ...

New research by scientists from the University of Reading and the University of Durham shows that encephalization (i.e., relative brain size increase) across 7 million years of hominin evolution arose ...

An accurate description of low-density nuclear matter is crucial for explaining the physics of neutron star crusts, according to a team of theoretical physicists led by Argonne National Laboratory’s ...

Over its history, archaeology has seen a varied set of uses made of philosophy and philosophical concepts. A persistent critique has been that too often philosophical or more generally theoretical ...

“The geometry and optical properties of the environment has profound consequences for how photons are emitted, including defining the photons shape, color, and even how likely it is to exist,” said ...