A groundbreaking study published in Current Biology, titled “Carnivorous dinosaur lineages adopt different skull performances at gigantic size”, has revealed striking differences in the hunting strategies of the world’s largest predatory…
Toothpaste made from human hair could soon join the toolkit for dental care, offering both sustainability and clinical benefits.
Researchers at King’s College London say keratin, a protein found in hair, skin, and wool, can restore enamel…
Hackaday has a long-running series on Mining and Refining, that tracks elements of interest on the human-made road from rocks to riches. What author Dan Maloney doesn’t address in that series is the natural history that comes before…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s economic capital of Lagos is one of the world’s most plastic-polluted cities. Lagos state authorities last month imposed a ban on single-use…
Picture the warm, shallow seas off ancient Australia some 26 million years ago. Among the schools of fish, a small but formidable predator lurks. Its huge eyes are scanning for movement, its mouth bristling with razor-sharp teeth.
This was…
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.
Since 2011, scientists and local officials have kept a close…
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.
Since 2011, scientists and local officials have kept a close…
Paleontologists recently uncovered a new species of dinosaur with a remarkable set of characteristics, offering new insights into the evolutionary relationship between theropod dinosaurs and modern birds. The species, named Shri rapax, was…
Some of the oldest air ever studied by scientists was trapped inside rock over 800 million years ago. Cracking the rock open and allowing the air to escape, the team who found it got a pretty astonishing surprise about the ancient atmosphere of…
In a bid to make lithium-ion batteries safer, cleaner, and easier to recycle, scientists at the Institute of Science Tokyo have developed a novel quasi-solid electrolyte.
The material, dubbed 3D-SLISE (3D-Slime Interface Quasi-Solid…
