1+ hour, 59+ min ago   (36+ words) Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have captured stunning new images of the surface of Betelgeuse, the famous red supergiant star in the constellation Orion, revealing persistent hot patches and a distorted, non-spherical atmosphere....

3+ hour, 59+ min ago   (106+ words) Scientists have identified a decades-old chemical compound as a promising new candidate for treating obesity and related metabolic diseases....

9+ hour, 55+ min ago   (19+ words) Dr. Andrew Gunn, a scientist at Monash University, has produced a complete digital map of Earth’s wind-blown sand dunes....

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (607+ words) Gliese 523b (GJ 523b) is a young, ultra-dense planet that orbits almost perpendicular to its star’s spin, according to a team of U.S. astronomers. An artist’s impression of a giant exoplanet. Image credit: Sci.News. “People have been using the phrase ‘mega-Earth…...

4+ day, 15+ min ago   (59+ words) A fossilized bone unearthed two decades ago in northeastern Japan belongs to one of the smallest iguanodontian dinosaurs ever found in the country’s Cretaceous marine rocks, according to new research led by the University of Tsukuba....

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (388+ words) A new genus and species of sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Triassic period, some 245 million years ago, has been identified from a nearly complete skeleton found in China. Sauropterygians were a highly successful lineage of paddling marine reptiles that…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (502+ words) For nearly 110 years, biologists have puzzled over why domestic cats’ kidneys are packed with unusually large numbers of fat-storing structures called lipid droplets. Professor Masao Miyazaki of Iwate University and colleagues suggest that these kidney droplets serve as a chemical…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (241+ words) “Its vicinity has allowed measuring individual stellar orbits around it.” “The stars act as test particles and probe the gravitational potential around the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole.” The newly-discovered star, designated S301, was spotted in the spring of 2023 using the GRAVITY instrument…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (579+ words) Dr. Ian Towle, a researcher with the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University, proposes folding nearly 5 million years of hominin fossils into the genus Homo, arguing that traits once used to separate species — big brains, tool use — no longer hold…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (547+ words) Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of armored, jawless fish from rocks around 419 million years old whose skull was shaped like the wing of a bat and whose unusual head made it an efficient glider through Devonian seas....