
Dinosaurs May Have Been Wiped Out by ‘Oddball’ Space Rock
By evaluating nickel isotopes protected in the 66-million-year-old particles left by the Chicxulub effect, scientists conclude that the asteroid accountable for Earth’s last mass termination more than likely came from…
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Potential Atmosphere Detected on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140b
Utilizing spectral information from the Magellan Clay telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, astronomers spotted helium leaving from LHS 1140b, a rocky exoplanet that orbits in the habitable zone of the…
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Tyrannosaurus rex Scavenged Duck-Billed Dinosaurs in Ancient Wyoming, Bite Marks Reveal
Countless fossilized bones from a Cretaceous-period bonebed in Wyoming, the United States, provide uncommon physical proof that Tyrannosaurus rex fed upon the carcasses of a duck-billed dinosaur types called Edmontosaurus…
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Jurassic Pliosaur Liopleurodon Was Big, but Not as Big as Once Feared
For numerous years, Liopleurodon ferox — a short-necked marine reptile that patrolled the seas of what is now England and France some 163 million years back– has actually held a…
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Stone Tools from Armenian Cave Reveal Split Strategy for Survival 50,000 Years Ago
Ararat-1, a modest limestone cavern that lies at an elevation of 1,034 m on the eastern flanks of the Ararat Depression in main Armenia, has actually yielded a striking puzzle…
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Small Sauropod Dinosaur from Jurassic Period Discovered in India
Paleontologists in India have actually uncovered a partial skeleton of a small, formerly unidentified neosauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic rocks of Gujarat’s Kachchh Basin. The discovery presses back the…
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Puzzling Near-Earth Asteroid Turns Out to Be Comet with Weak Tail
The near-Earth things (875163) 1998 SH2, which is presently categorized as an asteroid, has actually exposed a covert identity: it’s in fact a comet in camouflage, according to a brand-new…
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Oldest Known Male Gecko Found Preserved in Kachin Amber
Paleontologists have actually explained a brand-new genus and types of ancient gecko discovered in 2 pieces of amber from the 99-million-year-old (mid-Cretaceous) amber deposits in Kachin province, Myanmar. Among the…
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CERN Physicists Take New Look at Why Matter Beat Antimatter
Utilizing the biggest sample yet of particles called charm mesons, physicists with the CMS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) improved a decades-old test of the subtle imbalance that…
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Moderate Coffee and Caffeine Intake Poses Little Heart Risk, and May Even Help
In a brand-new evaluation paper, Dr. Gregory Marcus from the University of California, San Francisco and associates examined years of research study on how caffeine– usually taken in as coffee–…
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