Science word of the day: Parsec
Stephanie Pappas is a contributing author for Live Science, covering subjects varying from geoscience to archaeology to the human brain and habits. She was formerly a senior author for Live…
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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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‘We’re trying this out of frustration’: Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts
A group of UCLA researchers has actually turned to publishing material on OnlyFans to raise cash for research study amidst big federal financing cuts to U.S. science. The videos aren’t…
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‘Extremely rare’ Roman military camp found in Slovakia holds hastily buried remains of Marcus Aurelius’ soldiers — with some dumped in wells
Archaeologists in Slovakia have actually discovered a big Roman military camp most likely utilized by Marcus Aureliussoldiers throughout disputes with Germanic people in the late 2nd century. The “extremely rare”…
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