Hubble just exposed a rare and violent star collision
University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence that a nearby white dwarf is in fact the remnant of two stars merging — a rare
This prehistoric predator survived global warming by eating bones
About 56 million years ago, when Earth experienced a dramatic rise in global temperatures, one meat-eating mammal responded in a surprising way: It started eating
This diet helped people lose twice as much weight, without eating less
When given nutritionally matched diets, participants lost twice as much weight eating minimally processed foods compared to ultra-processed foods, suggesting that cutting down on processing
Scientists reexamine 47-year-old fossil and discover a new Jurassic sea monster
Paleontologists have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile from Germany’s world-renowned Posidonia Shale fossil beds, expanding our understanding of prehistoric ocean ecosystems that
Scientists just recreated the Universe’s first molecule and solved a 13-billion-year-old puzzle
Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high temperatures and densities. However, after just
Astronomers detect life’s building blocks around a young star
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has discovered
Rutgers physicists just discovered a strange new state of matter
Scientists have discovered a new way that matter can exist – one that is different from the usual states of solid, liquid, gas or plasma
Reversing Alzheimer’s damage: Two cancer drugs demonstrate surprising power
Scientists at UC San Francisco and Gladstone Institutes have identified cancer drugs that promise to reverse the changes that occur in the brain during Alzheimer’s,
400-million-year-old fish exposes big mistake in how we understood evolution
The coelacanth is known as a “living fossil” because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the
Your sleep schedule could be making you sick, says massive new study
A groundbreaking international study, recently published in Health Data Science, analyzed objective sleep data from 88,461 adults in the UK Biobank and found significant associations