A ream of paleontologists at the University of Zurich reports a chronic case of osteomyelitis (bone tissue infection) in Plateosaurus trossingensis, one of the earliest discovered and best-known dinosaurs from the Late Triassic of Europe.
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First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor
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Your Child’s “Normal” Cough Could Be a Sign of Irreversible Lung Damage
Untreated bacterial bronchitis in children may cause lasting lung damage, prompting calls for early detection and care tools. A wet cough lasting more than four weeks is often dismissed as common in children and not a cause for concern. However,…
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Study reveals East Asia’s earliest gold-inlaid spear sheath
In 1954, a bronze spear sheath dating from Japan’s Kofun period (AD 300–538) was found beneath a rock on Okinoshima, a sacred island located off the coast of Munakata, Fukuoka.
The entire island is revered as a Shinto kami (deity), with strict…
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Scientists claim they just discovered an ‘ultramassive’ black hole heavier than any other we’ve found
Astronomers have uncovered what they say just might be the heaviest black hole we’ve ever seen. The “ultramassive” black hole is located at the center of a galaxy nearly six billion light years away. Based on measurements,…
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China pulls off crew capsule escape test, its first in nearly 30 years
China’s next-gen spacecraft just nailed a dramatic escape test in what may be its biggest astronaut safety leap in decades.
The Mengzhou (Dream Vessel) spacecraft, part of China’s ambitious manned lunar program, successfully completed a…
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July decision expected on combination of European space companies
PARIS — Three European aerospace companies expect to decide by next month whether to combine their space divisions, something that could still take years to win regulatory approvals.
At a press conference during the Paris Air Show June…
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Career Exploration: Using Ingenuity and Innovation to Create ‘Memory Metals’
Othmane Benafan is a NASA engineer whose work is literally reshaping how we use aerospace materials — he creates metals that can shape shift. Benafan, a materials research engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, creates metals…
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Ancient Lunar Beads Reveal Explosive Volcanic Past
What can glass beads collected from the lunar surface more than 50 years ago teach scientists about the Moon’s volcanic history? This is what a recent study published in Icarus hopes to address as a team of…
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ALMA Detects Molecular Activity in Largest Known Oort Cloud Comet
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have observed comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) — the largest and second most distantly active comet ever observed from the Oort Cloud — while it was more…
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