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First hints of possible water content on TRAPPIST-1 planets
This artist's impression shows the view from the surface of one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. At least seven planets...
Human bones in south Mexico: Stalagmite reveals their age as 13,000 years old
Prehistoric human skeleton in the Chan Hol Cave near Tulúm on the Yucatán peninsula prior to looting by unknown cave divers.
Credit: Tom...
Fossil footprints challenge established theories of human evolution
The footprints were discovered by Gerard Gierlinski (1st author of the study) by chance when he was on holiday on Crete in...
What changes when you warm the Antarctic Ocean just 1 degree? Lots
This photograph shows a morning commute in Antarctica.
Credit: Gail Ashton
After warming a natural seabed in the Antarctic Ocean by just 1° or...
How certain ants snap their jaws shut in the blink of an eye
For clues into how Myrmoteras executes its power-amplified strike, scientists examined the ants first under a microscope, then using micro computed tomography...
New hope for reef fish living in a high CO2 world
This is an orange clownfish, Amphiprion percula, living in symbiosis with a host anemone.
Credit: Alejandro Usobiaga
Just as when a camera lens comes...
Yawning: Why is it so contagious and why should it matter?
Our ability to resist yawning when someone else near us yawns is limited.
Credit: © Garrincha / Fotolia
Feeling tired? Even if we aren't...
Cosmic environments and their influence in star formation
Simulations of the cosmic web. The filaments connecting structures are shown. Such structures are predicted by numerical simulations of matter distribution in...
Scents and social preference: Neuroscientists ID the roots of attraction
A confocal image of a tadpole brain reveals dopaminergic (green) neurons, the type increased in typical kinship recognition, and GABAergic (red) neurons,...
Reconstructing life at its beginning, cell by cell
The virtual embryo offers predictions which cells express -- for example -- the genes even skipped (red) and twist (green). To appreciate...
Brown dwarf weather forecasts improved
By using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have found that the varying glow of brown dwarfs over time can be explained by...
