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The ancient remains appeared fresh and new, biologist Steve Emslie said.

The fact they were able to evolve forelimb adaptations suggests that they were able to alter their diets and lifestyles more quickly and efficiently than other dinosaurs, the researchers say.

The brain cells turned to glass after being exposed to an avalanche of hot ash.

The drug is being tested for early treatment of patients who are at high risk of being taken to hospital.

It’s one of life’s little ironies: Sweet foods get sweeter when you add a little salt. Now, scientists may have provided connoisseurs of salted caramel and grapefruit with the reason this culinary trick is worth its salt.

In February, Ashley Ingiosi was excited to finally interview for a faculty position after spending 10 years in training as a grad student and postdoc. “Then COVID came around,” the Washington State University, Spokane, neuroscientist says, and the job opening was eliminated. “That was the end of my job search […]

British physicist Sir Roger Penrose shares the prize with Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists who made pioneering discoveries about the nature of black holes and showed that a giant one lay at the center of the Milky Way. One half of the prize goes to Roger Penrose, a mathematician at the University of […]