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Big-nosed, long-horned dinosaur discovered in Utah: Dinosaur in same family as Triceratops
This image shows an artist rendition of Nasutoceratops.
Credit: Lukas Panzarin
A remarkable new species of horned dinosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument,...
New horned dinosaur reveals evolution of nose horn in Triceratops family
This is a ife reconstruction of Wendiceratops pinhornensis.
Credit: Danielle Dufault
Scientists have discovered a striking new species of horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) based on fossils collected...
Scientists track the brain-skull transition from dinosaurs to birds
These are CT scan images of the skull roof (front bone in pink, parietal in green) and brain (in blue) of, top to bottom,...
Blood test can effectively rule out breast cancer, regardless of breast density
Pink breast cancer awareness ribbon.
Credit: © ink drop / Fotolia
A new study published in PLOS ONE demonstrates that Videssa® Breast, a multi-protein biomarker blood...
Neuroscientists improve human memory by electrically stimulating brain
A new study suggests that even low currents of electricity can affect the brain circuits that control memory and human learning. (stock image)
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New RoboBee flies, dives, swims and explodes out the of water
New, hybrid RoboBee can fly, dive into water, swim, propel itself back out of water, and safely land. The RoboBee is retrofitted with four...
Hydropower dams worldwide cause continued species extinction
Hydropower plant (stock image). Scientists have discovered that reservoir islands created by large dams across the world do not maintain the same levels of...
Earliest known marine navigation tool revealed with scanning technology
Scan of the astrolabe artefact, revealing the etches.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of Warwick
Details of the earliest known marine navigation tool, discovered in a...
Studying insect behavior? Make yourself an ethoscope!
Exploded drawing of an archetypal ethoscope. The machine is composed of 2 main parts: an upper case housing the rPi and its camera, and...
New NASA study improves search for habitable worlds
This is a plot of what the sea ice distribution could look like on a synchronously rotating ocean world. The star is off to...
Six degrees of separation: Why it is a small world after all
It's a small world after all.
Credit: © Syda Productions / Fotolia
It's a small world after all -- and now science has explained why.
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