Science Pulse
The James Webb telescope spotted the earliest known ‘quenched’...
A galaxy dubbed GS-9209 ceased forming stars more than 12.5 billion years ago after a 200-million-year-long sprint.
Climate ‘teleconnections’ may link droughts and fires across...
Far-reaching climate patterns like the El Niño-Southern Oscillation may synchronize droughts and regulate scorching of much of Earth’s...
3-D maps of a protein show how it helps organs filter out...
Images of LRP2 in simulated cell environments reveal the structural changes that let it catch molecules outside a cell and release...
Mars rover Curiosity finds 'best evidence' of ancient water...
NASA's Curiosity rover has recently found rippled rock textures that suggest lakes existed in a region of ancient Mars. Scientists...
The Biggest Penguin Ever Was A 'Monster Bird' Weighing...
A team of international researchers announced the discovery of Kumimanu fordycei, what may have been the largest penguin ever to have...
Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool to...
Cockatoos know when it will take a stick and a straw to nab a nut in a puzzle box. The birds join chimps as the only known nonhumans...
This dinosaur may have used its legs to catch prey in the...
Fossilized toe pads suggest a hawklike hunting style in Microraptor, a dinosaur that some scientists think could hunt while flying.
NASA scientists 'weigh' a white dwarf for the first time...
NASA astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the mass of a white dwarf, an important step for understanding how stars...
Dwarf planet Quaoa in the Kuiper belt has an impossible...
Quaoar’s ring lies outside the Roche limit, an imaginary line beyond which rings aren’t thought to be stable.
Some ‘friendly’ bacteria backstab their algal pals. Now...
The friendly relationship between Emiliana huxleyi and Roseobacter turns deadly when the bacteria get a whiff of the algae’s aging-related...
Many plans for green infrastructure risk leaving vulnerable...
Green infrastructure is one way to help combat climate hazards like flooding. But without equitable planning, only some communities...
We prioritize family over self, and that has real-world...
Two studies show how family bonds improve personal and mental health, suggesting policy makers should shift away from individualistic...
Here are 3 people-animal collaborations besides dolphins...
Dolphins working with people to catch fish recently made a big splash. But humans and other animals have cooperated throughout history.
How plant ‘muscles’ fold up a mimosa leaf fast
A mimosa plant revs up tiny clumps of specially shaped cells that collapse its leaflets, though why isn’t clear.
Are your cats having fun or fighting? Here are some ways...
Certain behaviors indicate if your cats’ interaction is friendly, aggressive or something in between, a new study finds.
Vikings brought animals to England as early as the year...
A chemical analysis of cremated remains offers physical evidence of the arrival of Norse animals to England in the ninth century.
Hubble captures stunning stellar duo in Orion Nebula 1,450...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning new image of two stars in the Orion Nebula, a region of stellar formation located about...
Muon scanning hints at mysteries within an ancient Chinese...
Density fluctuations within the ancient rampart encircling the city of Xi’an could be defects or yet-to-be-discovered archaeological...
A new metric of extinction risk considers how cultures...
Conservation efforts should consider relationships between cultural groups and the species important to them, researchers argue.
Florida man who allegedly beat shark on beach should be...
Florida wildlife officials are recommending charges against a man accused of dragging a shark around a beach after beating it with...
