Salt may be the key to life on Earth and beyond
The composition of the atmosphere, especially the abundance of greenhouse gases, influences Earth’s climate.
Researchers at Purdue University, led by Stephanie Olson, assistant professor of...
Most of our evolutionary trees could be wrong, shows study
New study led by scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath suggests that determining evolutionary trees of organisms by...
Shark antibodies may hold the key to stopping COVID-19
Fossil evidence suggests that sharks first existed 420 million years ago, predating humanity, Mount Everest, and even trees.
Over the course of time, sharks and...
How to make colors out of gold and DNA
Folk belief says there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but new technology is turning that idea on its head...
Scientists find new way to check dinosaurs’ temperature
A Yale-led research team has turned up the heat on dinosaur metabolism — establishing that the earliest dinosaurs and pterosaurs had exceptionally high metabolic...
Wild animals are evolving much faster than previously thought
The raw material for evolution is much more abundant in wild animals than we previously believed, according to new research from The Australian National...
What caused this prehistoric shark’s massive toothache
Did the world’s largest prehistoric shark need an orthodontist, or did it just have a bad lunch?
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the...
Scientists discover mountains of sugar under seagrass meadows
Seagrasses form lush green meadows in many coastal areas around the world.
These marine plants are one of the most efficient global sinks of carbon...
Scientists find new ichthyosaur, one of the largest animals ever, in the Alps
The first ichthyosaurs swam through the primordial oceans in the early Triassic period about 250 million years ago.
They had an elongated body and a...
Life elements could have been generated in asteroids, shows NASA study
Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be...