Zoology
Spinosaurus’s Dense Bones enabled it to Hunt Underwater
Spinosaurus is the largest predatory dinosaur known – over two metres longer than the longest Tyrannosaurus rex – but the way it hunted has been…
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Biology
Fossils of a 66 million-year-old Giant Sea Lizard Discovered
Fossils of a giant killer mosasaur have been discovered, along with the fossilized remains of its prey. Researchers have discovered a huge new mosasaur from…
Astronomy
A Water-covered Extrasolar World
An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute for Research on…
Astronomy
Two New Temperate Rocky Worlds have been Discovered
An international research team including astronomers at the University of Birmingham, has just announced the discovery of two “super-Earth” planets orbiting LP 890-9, a small,…
Astronomy
Astronomers demonstrate how the Terrain Changes on Icy Comets
With an eye toward a possible return mission years in the future, Cornell University astronomers have shown how smooth terrains – a good place to…
Astronomy
Creating Nanodiamonds from Bottle Plastic
What goes on inside planets like Neptune and Uranus? To find out, an international team headed by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the University of Rostock,…
Physics
Creating Miniature Magnets
Researchers demonstrated a topological insulator device that opens the way towards observing the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Because the currents generated are resistant to shattering,…
Physics
New Nanoscale Spin Waves are Created by Physicists
Strong alternating magnetic fields can be used to generate a new type of spin wave that was previously just theoretically predicted. This was achieved for…
Biology
Microbiologists Investigate Giant Viruses in Arctic Epishelf Lake, Climate Change threatens it
Investigators have produced an assessment of the abundance of the viruses in the Milne Fiord Epishelf Lake near the North Pole. Less than 500 miles…
Technology
Ecologists Study Young Coral using advanced Dental Scanning Technology
Inspired by a trip to the dentist, Dr. Kate Quigley presents a new method for monitoring coral size and growth that reduces surveying time by…
Biology
North Atlantic hit a Tipping Point, according to a study on Little Ice Age
Scientists have used centuries-old clam shells to see how the North Atlantic climate system reached a “tipping point” before the Little Ice Age. The Little…
Astronomy
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Explores the Geologically Diverse Landscapes of Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to be a…
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