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The "resonant" planets could provide insight about how such systems form and evolve—and why our own solar system is not synced up

Contrary to current understanding, the brains of human newborns aren't significantly less developed compared to other primate species, but appear so because so much brain development happens after birth, finds a new study led by University College London researchers.

A pair of nematodes from the Pleistocene survived in the Siberian permafrost by entering a survival state known as cryptobiosis.

Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on December 4 have found the earliest-known fossil mosquito in Lower Cretaceous amber from Lebanon. What's more, the well-preserved insects are two males of the same species with piercing mouthparts, suggesting they likely sucked blood. That's noteworthy because, among...

A distant comet trapped in orbit between Saturn and Uranus is accompanied by a transforming disk of icy dust, new observations reveal.

A photo from 1978 shows famous Catalan surrealist painter Juan Miró in his Taller Sert, surrounded by his paintings. In the background, the bright, intense yellow of Femme dans le rue (1973), stands out. Fifty years later, that cadmium-based yellow is faded and chalky. The same phenomenon has affected 25 other paintings in the...

Plants, animals, and many fungi typically grow through the process of binary fission, a form of asexual reproduction that allows a cell to divide, multiply, and produce new cells that are specialized for certain activities.

In November this year, the northern lights were seen unusually far south, in locations like Italy and Texas. This was due to the effects of a solar coronal mass ejection on Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere. However, this was minor compared to a massive solar storm in February 1872. The 1872

Confronting the catastrophe of the Second World War, four composers produced strikingly different responses.

Originally created in 2006, the Molinière Underwater Sculpture Park recently added 31 new pieces off the coast of the island of Grenada

The Milky Way is a bit of an oddity, but it turns out we're just really good at social distancing.

A recent study conducted by researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has uncovered a fascinating aspect of the Moon's composition. The study, centred on lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo programme, has revealed the presence of hydrogen within these rocks. This hydrogen, when combined with lunar oxygen, holds...

Astronomers have spotted signs of an extended disk of dust and gas, whirling in orbit around a distant star.

It’s easy to think of stone as static, immutable, but as Eternal Medium shows, stone is a slice of the earth itself, as alive as the artists who mold and shape it.

In 1986, a gigantic iceberg separated from the Fichner-Ronne ice shelf in West Antarctica.

The COP28 climate talks have been flooded with announcements hyping controversial carbon credits before rules for them have been hammered out, with environmental groups fearing "greenwashing" on a massive scale.

In microgravity, without the continuous load of Earth's gravity, the tissues that make up bones reshape themselves. Bone cells readjust their behaviors—the cells that build new bone slow down, while the cells that break down old or damaged bone tissue keep operating at their normal pace so that breakdown outpaces growth,...

Would you watch a play about hydro electricity? How about the dairy industry?

A new project ambitiously attempts to capture the city’s complex visual culture and investigates its constantly evolving psyche.

Researchers have discovered previously unknown physical effects in systems made up of particles whose propulsion speed depends on their orientation. The field of research focusing on self-propelled particles, known as active particles, is rapidly expanding. In most theoretical models, these particl

Researchers at Northern Arizona University have shared new details about the resilience of coast redwoods, particularly their recovery

A research team, led by scientists at the University of York, mapped the family tree of the ferocious ambush-predators and their extinct relatives known as Pseudosuchia. They then compared this with data from the fossil record to understand why crocodiles have so few living species, while there are 11,000 species of their...

A consideration of how mountains influence El Niño and La Niña-induced precipitation change in western North America may be the ticket to more informed water conservation planning along the Colorado River, new research suggests.

After three La Niña summers many of us would have been expecting much hotter and drier conditions this spring and summer after the arrival of El Niño. Instead, in many parts of eastern Australia it's rained and rained over the last few weeks.

What we can learn from the macabre diets of a curious species of cichlids.