10+ hour, 46+ min ago  (65+ words) Paleontologists working in Brazil have identified a previously unknown species of archosauriform that lived about 240 million years ago and may belong to a poorly understood group of ancient reptiles that closely resembled the ancestors of crocodiles and dinosaurs....

14+ hour, 31+ min ago  (380+ words) ESA's Euclid space telescope mapped more than 60 million stars in the Milky Way's central bulge, producing the largest high-resolution visible-light portrait ever of our Galaxy's crowded heart and opening a new window on alien worlds. "Designed to observe billions of…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (612+ words) Scientists have generated genetic data from 27 Neanderthals who lived in Belgium and France less than approximately 52, 500years ago, painting a richer and more surprising portrait of how our closest hominin cousins organized their lives before their disappearance. Neanderthals lived in Europe…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (177+ words) Two newly discovered exoplanets, TOI-791b and TOI-791c, are as large as Jupiter but have densities lower than cotton candy, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into how bloated gas giants form and evolve....

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (52+ words) Researchers at Guangzhou Medical University tracked nearly 88, 000 people for over eight years, finding a significant link between daytime light exposure and reduced dementia rates....

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (618+ words) In a new animal study published in the journal Cell Metabolism, scientists found that adding a precise amount of a single amino acid to a low-protein, plant-based diet dramatically reduced frailty and fat in mice; a cross-sectional analysis of epidemiological…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (32+ words) A new genus and species of four-winged pennaraptoran dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of northern China is adding another twist to the story of how birds evolved from their dinosaur ancestors....

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (273+ words) Domestic cats (Felis catus) develop the same patterns of brain shrinkage and neurological decline as aging humans, and scientists think that makes them an ideal window into dementia and aging....

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (334+ words) The interstellar comet 3 I/ATLAS carries a chemical fingerprint unlike anything in our Solar System, and it may have formed 10 to 12 billion years ago, before our Sun even existed, according to two papers published in the journal Nature....

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (198+ words) For decades, paleoanthropologists assumed that hominins -- the lineage leading to modern humans -- gradually grew larger over millions of years....