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Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs
Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in.
Ancient Japanese birds looked a lot like New Zealand's monster penguins
New analysis suggests New Zealand's giant penguins and a much younger group of Northern Hemisphere birds, the plotopterids, were physically quite similar.
Watch Live: Accused 'Golden State Killer,' Joseph DeAngelo, 74, pleads guilty
The 74-year-old retired California police officer accused of committing multiple murders and attacks during the '70s and '80s as the "Golden State Killer" took a plea deal to avoid the...
Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs
Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in.
Expeditions app puts Arnold Arboretum in the palm of your hand
The sound of the Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum is about to change, as an innovative new app brings the scope of its landscape to life. Expeditions — a free, interactive mobile tour app...
Watch: Man takes 92 wet sponge hits to the face for Guinness record
An Idaho man with more than 150 Guinness World Records to his name took 92 hits to the face from wet sponges to break his latest record.
New extinct family of giant wombat relatives discovered in Australian desert
The unique remains of a prehistoric, giant wombat-like marsupial—Mukupirna nambensis—that was unearthed in central Australia are so different from all other previously known extinct animals that it has been placed...
New extinct family of giant wombat relatives discovered in Australian desert
A giant marsupial that roamed prehistoric Australia 25 million years ago is so different from its wombat cousins that scientists have had to create a new family to accommodate it.
Origin of domesticated chicken identified
A very large international team of researchers has identified the origin of the domesticated chicken. In their paper published in the journal Cell Research, the group outlines the extensive genetic...
Gunmen attack Pakistan Stock Exchange; several killed
Security forces in Karachi on Monday thwarted an attack by gunmen who opened fire on the Pakistan Stock Exchange, killing several people.
Non-tobacco plant identified in ancient pipe for first time
People in what is now Washington State were smoking Rhus glabra, a plant commonly known as smooth sumac, more than 1,400 years ago. The discovery marks the first-time scientists have...
Who doesn't trust Lucy Jones in a crisis? Here's what she has to say about the coronavirus pandemic
Lucy Jones has gotten us through many a crisis. The coronavirus pandemic may be different from an earthquake, but her analysis of it, in a new podcast, is as steady...
Who doesn't trust Lucy Jones in a crisis? Here's what she has to say about the coronavirus pandemic
Lucy Jones has gotten us through many a crisis. The coronavirus pandemic may be different from an earthquake, but her analysis of it, in a new podcast, is as steady...
More fragments from 1952 crash in Alaska found in glacier
A lucky Buddha figurine, a flight suit, several 3-cent stamps, a crumpled 1952 Mass schedule for St. Patrick's Church in Washington, D.C., and 480 bags containing individual human remains.
First Viking ship excavation in a century begins in Norway
Just three other well-preserved vessels from the period have been discovered in the Scandinavian country.
Baseball Hall of Fame reopens after three-month shutdown due to pandemic
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., has reopened its doors after being closed for more than three months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
New conclusions about ‘convergent evolution’ of saber-tooth cats
Saber-tooth cats often conjure images of fearsome predators. But of the nearly 100 unique ‘types’ of saber-tooths that wandered the earth, researchers have determined that was not always the case....
From the lab, the first cartilage-mimicking gel that’s strong enough for knees
The thin, slippery layer of cartilage between the bones in the knee is magical stuff: strong enough to withstand a person’s weight, but soft and supple enough to cushion the...
MicroCT reveals detailed head morphology of arthropod, Leanchoilia illecebrosa
Researchers used microCT to study and re-study arthropod fossils from the early Cambrian in the Chengjiang biota in the Yunnan Province of China. Their latest study shows with unprecedented clarity...
Tiny Japanese dinosaur eggs help unscramble Cretaceous ecosystem
A research team has excavated over 1300 eggshell fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Over 96% of these fossils, including numerous fragments, four partial and...
Look: Crater of Diamonds visitor finds 2.23-carat brown diamond in the dirt
An Arkansas woman visiting the state's Crater of Diamonds State Park found a 2.23-carat brown diamond -- the largest discovery at the park this year.
Early peoples in Pacific Northwest were smoking smooth sumac
Some 1,400 years ago, people living in what's now Washington State were smoking smooth sumac, Rhus glabra. Scientists found residues of the native plant in an ancient pipe.
Project gathers stories of those killed in police violence
The oldest person on the list is a 107-year-old African American man, who in 2013, upset at being asked to move from the house where he was living, barricaded himself in a...
The millenial pre-colonial cultural inluence is evident in the Amazon forest
More than ten years ago, large geometric earthworks found in the southwestern parts of the Amazon, called geoglyphs, were reported in the global scientific news. A pre-colonial civilization unknown to...
Pantera leo's family tree takes shape
As the "king of beasts," majestic lions have been used as a symbol of courage, nobility and strength by rulers for over 6000 years. A lion became the symbol of...
Fancy Aussie bees flew in from Asia
Ancestors of a distinctive pollinating bee found across Australia probably originated in tropical Asian countries, islands in the south-west Pacific or greater Oceania region, ecology researchers claim.
Bizarre saber-tooth predator from South America was no saber-tooth cat
A new study has shown that not all saber-tooths were fearsome predators.
How the coronavirus pandemic could shape cities
At the turn of the 20th century, tuberculosis was America's third-most common cause of death. It struck down the young as well as the old and was so contagious that...