University of Barcelona archaeologists have discovered the Maghreb region’s first known Bronze Age settlement.
While the historical narrative credits the Phoenicians as the first complex culture to settle the region around 800 BC, excavations at…
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Cretaceous-Period Lacewing Larvae Had Sophisticated Eyes
Paleontologists have found three lacewing larvae with large forward-directed stemmata (eyes in holometabolans) in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber from Myanmar. These specimens demonstrate the convergent evolution of highly developed simple…
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Hubble Reveals New Insights into Kuiper Belt’s Triple Systems
Can asteroids orbit each other in pairs of three, also called a three-body or triple system, like stars? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of…
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High-Density, Ultra-Stable Batteries Advance Renewable Energy Storage
Researchers developed a high-solubility pyrene tetraone derivative (PTO-PTS) that enhances AOFB energy density and stability. This monomer enables reversible four-electron storage, achieving 90 Ah/L and maintaining 100% capacity retention after…
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Extreme heat silently accelerates aging on a molecular level − new research
What if extreme heat not only leaves you feeling exhausted but actually makes you age faster?
Scientists already know that extreme heat increases the risk of heat stroke, cardiovascular disease, kidney dysfunction and even death. I see…
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The Role of Sleep in Pediatric Concussion Recovery: A Crucial Factor for Healing
Pediatric concussions are a growing concern, particularly among youth engaged in sports and other high-risk activities. While much research has focused on cognitive rest and physical recovery, recent findings…
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NASA’s Hubble finds Kuiper Belt duo may be trio
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show “3 Body Problem.” There’s no problem, however, with…
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Melting Ice Sheets are Slowing World’s Strongest Ocean Current, Study Shows
More than four times stronger than the Gulf Stream, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the world’s strongest ocean current and plays a disproportionate role in the climate system due to its role as a conduit for major ocean basins….
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From Clouds to Chemistry: Decoding the Atmosphere of SIMP 0136 with Webb
What can the atmosphere of a free-floating exoplanet teach astronomers about exoplanet formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an…
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‘Woolly mammoth mice’ are now real (and posing a major ethical dilemma)
Colossal Biosciences, a US biotech start-up, has announced the birth of what it calls a “woolly mouse” – the world’s first animal genetically altered to express key genes from a woolly mammoth.
The company says the luxuriously haired…
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