Skull of smallest-known bird embedded in 99-million-year-old amber
Scientists are marveling over the exquisitely preserved skull of what appears to be the smallest-known bird – tinier than any hummingbird – encased in 99-million-year-old...
Prosthetic innovation: ‘It’s like you have a hand again’ – study
Today’s artificial limbs can look very natural, and now an innovative process makes prosthetic hands move more naturally as well....
Dogs can detect heat with ‘infrared sensor’ in their nose, research finds
Dogs have a type of infrared sensor in the tip of their nose which enables them to detect minute changes in temperature such as when...
Waiter, there’s a fly in my waffle: Belgian researchers try out insect butter
Belgian waffles may be about to become more environmentally friendly....
Genetic study shows the red panda is actually two separate species
Red pandas, the bushy-tailed and russet-furred bamboo munchers that dwell in Asian high forests, are not a single species but rather two distinct ones, according...
Billion-year-old Chinese seaweed is oldest green plant fossil
Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas...
Shake it, baby! NASA robotic lander confirms quakes on Mars
NASA’s robotic InSight lander has for the first time established that Mars is seismically active, but do not call the shaking, rattling and rolling taking...
Speed science: The risks of swiftly spreading coronavirus research
One scientific post suggests links between the new coronavirus and AIDS, a second says it may have passed to people via snakes, while a third...
Did Neanderthals bury their dead with flowers? Iraq cave yields new clues
A Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in an Iraqi cave already famous for fossils of these extinct cousins of our species is providing fresh evidence that they...
‘Ghost’ ancestors: African DNA study detects mysterious human species
Scientists examining the genomes of West Africans have detected signs that a mysterious extinct human species interbred with our own species tens of thousands of...
