An international research team has identified a new dinosaur species, Foskeia pelendonum, a tiny plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now Vegagete (Burgos, Spain). At just about half a meter long, Foskeia ranks…
Another former senior employee added: “Theoretically, there was some willingness to do other kinds of research, but directing resources to those things was made really difficult, so you always felt like a second-class…
Each winter, over a million “snowbirds” descend on places like Florida and…
I didn’t visit a dentist for years in my 20s. I periodically considered setting up an appointment but relocated so frequently that it never quite happened. When, after years of procrastination, I finally wound up in the dentist’s…
In space procurement, there are few phrases that carry more weight than “flight heritage.” Once a supplier claims it, the rest of the room can relax. The hardware has flown, goes the thinking. It worked. The risk of using such hardware is…
Views of Jupiter consistently capture its atmosphere swirling with wild storms, but there’s more to find beneath this chaotic scene. The clouds enveloping this gas giant are so dense that they conceal its deeper layers, hiding their secrets…
‘Zombie’ coronavirus fragments not only help drive inflammation in long-COVID, but also destroy our immune cells.
A recent study by an international team of more than 30 authors reveals how the destruction of the virus within our body leaves…
In January, the US Air Force successfully conducted the first live-warhead test of the Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) at the Eglin Test and Training Range.
Moments later, a high-value target evaporated in a precise, orange bloom of…
A footprint unearthed by a teenage fossil hunter at Albion in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, in 1958 has now been formally identified as the continent’s earliest confirmed dinosaur trace, dating back some 230 million years (Late Triassic…
Infections with Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) are very common; the virus is estimated to have infected at least 90% of all adults worldwide. It can easily be transmitted through the saliva of an infected person….
