New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europe -- revealing that the rodent colonised the continent on two occasions in the Ro… [+3271 chars]
May 3 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith The ability of a forest to regenerate after droughts, wildfires or other disturbances is largely dependent on seed production. The findings of two recent investigati… [+5434 chars]
The sunset and crescent moon are visible as the SOFIA team prepares to observe Venus. Credit: NASA / AFRC, Carla Thomas Edinburgh, 3 May 2022. – NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), who has a… [+1260 chars]
May 3 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith According to a new study, there was a period of accelerated global climate change in an ice-capped world about 304 million years ago, similar to the present. In just… [+4638 chars]
Astronomers are awaiting the summer day when the four instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope will take their first science data a moment decades in the making. On Thursday, NASA and ESA ann… [+4069 chars]
Mars is full of volcanoes, such as these ones in the Tharsis region: Ceraunius Tholus and Uranius ... [+] Tholus. This image came from data taken during separate orbits of the European Space Agency's… [+2281 chars]
The rotorcraft provided rover scientists an aerial perspective of an interesting rocky outcrop. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed an intriguing ridgeline near the ancient river del… [+3940 chars]
An international research team, including scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have used a new observation technique to discover the brightest extragalactic pulsar known, and it … [+2984 chars]
May 3 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Corals are the foundation species for ocean and reef ecosystems but coral bleaching due to ocean warming and climate change is destroying them. Recent open-access re… [+5817 chars]
Wealth inequality is a research topic typically reserved for humans. Now, research from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that studying wealt… [+7599 chars]
This network of long grooves and scratches forms part of a giant fault system on Mars known as Tantalus Fossae, and is shown here as seen by ESA's Mars Express. At first glance, these features look a… [+3656 chars]
Scientists have found that a key modern group of reptiles that includes lizards and snakesknown as squamatesdiverged in the Jurassic period, 50 million years earlier than previously thought. New res… [+3676 chars]
