science
New composite advances lignin as a renewable 3-D printing material
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a recipe for a renewable 3-D printing feedstock that could spur a...
The oldest large-sized predatory dinosaur comes from the Italian Alps
Early Jurassic predatory dinosaurs are very rare, and mostly small in size. Saltriovenator zanellai, a new genus and species described in the peer-reviewed journal...
Three generations, 1,000s of miles: Scientists unlock mystery of a dragonfly’s...
Thanks to photos and films featuring clouds of stunning orange and black monarch butterflies flying across North America, many people today are familiar with...
Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years earlier than thought
Scientists have described a fossil plant species that suggests flowers bloomed in the Early Jurassic, more than 174 million years ago, according to new...
Rare relic is one of only three fossil clouds known in...
A relic cloud of gas, orphaned after the Big Bang, has been discovered in the distant universe by astronomers using the world's most powerful...
Mystery of coronae around supermassive black holes deepens
Researchers from RIKEN and JAXA have used observations from the ALMA radio observatory located in northern Chile and managed by an international consortium including...
‘Pause’ in global warming was never real, new research proves
Claims of a 'pause' in observed global temperature warming are comprehensively disproved in a pair of new studies published today.
An international team of climate...
Most-distant solar system object ever observed
A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that...
Looking for LUCA, the last universal common ancestor
Around 4 billion years ago there lived a microbe called LUCA: the Last Universal Common Ancestor. There is evidence that it could have lived...
Research confirms political views predict whether people trust false information about...
The results of the U.S. presidential election in 2016 created a unique opportunity for a team of UCLA researchers.
Back in 2015, the investigators analyzed...
Machine learning-detected signal predicts time to earthquake
Machine-learning research published in two related papers today in Nature Geoscience reports the detection of seismic signals accurately predicting the Cascadia fault's slow slippage,...













