World’s oldest artwork uncovered in Indonesian cave: study
An Indonesian cave painting that depicts a prehistoric hunting scene could be the world's oldest figurative artwork dating back nearly 44,000 years, a discovery...
Research confirms timing of tropical glacier melt at the end of the last ice...
Tropical glaciers in Africa and South America began their retreat simultaneously at the end of the last ice age about 20,000 years ago, according...
Azteca ant colonies move the same way leopards’ spots form
What could Azteca ants in coffee farms in Mexico have in common with leopards' spots and zebras' stripes?
After two decades of analyzing the rise,...
Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction
New evidence gleaned from Antarctic seashells confirms that Earth was already unstable before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The study, led by...
A new way to measure cosmic black holes
Supermassive black holes are the largest black holes, with masses that can exceed a billion Suns. Just this spring, the first-ever image of the...
ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted the light of a massive galaxy seen only 970 million years after the Big...
Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness
If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know it's a good insulator because heat energy has a...
Newly described fossil whale represents intermediate stage between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming
A newly described fossil whale represents a new species and an important step in the evolution of whale locomotion, according to a University of...
Second stellar population found in Milky Way’s thick disk
A new study on the kinematics and chemical composition of a sample of stars in the vicinity of the sun, led by Dr. Daniela...
Water common—yet scarce—in exoplanets
The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge current theories of planet formation and has...
Chiton mollusk provides model for new armor design
The motivations for using biology as inspiration to engineering vary based on the project, but for Ling Li, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in...
