Scientists at TU Delft have designed a nanostring that, when poked, doesn’t lose its energy to the environment immediately. Instead, the energy leaks out within the string, triggering a cascade of distinct vibrational modes. For the first time,…
Amazon’s audiobook platform Audible is expanding its subscription lineup with the launch of a new Standard membership plan, the company announced Tuesday. It’s a lower-priced option designed for listeners who want access to audiobooks and…
The newly-discovered minuscule fossils of Purgatorius — a shrew-sized mammal considered the earliest known relative of all primates, including humans, and long thought to be confined to northern North America — extend the known range of…
In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the course of their fieldwork, they found eight similar bones, each around six inches long—but no…
Jackdaw chicks learn about predators by listening to adults, new research shows. Scientists played recordings of predator calls to chicks in their nests—and paired the sounds with either adult jackdaw “alarm” calls or “contact” calls that…
A new study co-led by WEHI has found a simple blood test can help identify the early-stage testicular cancer patients who are most at-risk of cancer relapse. The CLIMATE study found a protein, which is released into the bloodstream by testicular…
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Years ago, in a dry riverbed in Brazil, paleontologists discovered a strikingly…
There are quite a few animals considered “living fossils” in today’s…
In a dry riverbed in northern Brazil, paleontologists kept finding the same strange bone. Each was about six inches long, curved, thick, and unmistakably twisted. At first, the fossilized jaw looked like a deformity. But as more examples emerged…
Paleontologists have revealed a bizarre prehistoric creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth, and the water-dwelling weirdo was already a “living fossil” when it existed 275 million years ago.
The newly described species, named…
