Paleontologists Discover New Species of Extinct Walrus
Paleontologists from Japan, Belgium and the United States have identified a new species of the extinct genus Ontocetus from a nearly complete pair of fossilized jaws from the Early Pleistocene…
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AMS Detector Reveals Surprising Surplus of Cosmic Rays Made of Deuterons
Deuterons — atomic nuclei made up of a proton and a neutron — are thought to form in the same way as helium-3 nuclei, in collisions between primary helium-4 nuclei…
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Study: Asteroid Psyche Originated beyond Solar System’s Snow Line and Later Migrated to Main Belt
Planetary scientists using spectral data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed the detection of hydroxyl molecules on the surface of the metallic asteroid Psyche. The presence of…
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ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter Spots Chloride-Bearing Deposits on Mars
Chloride deposits are markers for early Mars’ aqueous past, with important implications for the understanding of the Martian climate and habitability. Using high-resolution color-infrared images captured by the Colour and…
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Large Language Models Pose No Existential Threat to Humanity, Scientists Say
ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs), comprising billions of parameters and pre-trained on extensive web-scale corpora, have been claimed to acquire certain capabilities without having been specifically trained on…
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Mid-Crust of Mars May Contain ‘Oceans of Liquid Water’
New data about the Martian crust gathered by NASA’s InSight lander allowed geophysicists at the University of California San Diego and the University of California Berkeley to estimate that the…
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Hubble Snaps Striking Barred Spiral Galaxy Image
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of LEDA 12535, a barred spiral galaxy situated in the famous Perseus cluster. This Hubble image shows…
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How will the trapped Boeing Starliner astronauts perceive time after 6 months in space?
2 astronauts marooned in area might seem like the plot of a Hollywood hit, however for 2 NASA team members, it is now a truth. Leader Barry Wilmore and pilot…
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Dodos were fast and powerful, not slow and inept, definitive preserved specimen suggests
New research study reveals dodos played a crucial function in the community of Mauritius. (Image credit: Artwork by Julian Pender Hume) The dodoa bird that human beings hunted to termination…
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Auroras headed to the US again in aftermath of gargantuan ‘X-class’ solar flare
The northern lights identified over Minnesota throughout a current geomagnetic storm. (Image credit: Anadolu by means of Getty Images) Aurora chasers might remain in for a reward when again this…
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