A small tyrant dinosaur once written off as a teenaged T. rex has now been confirmed as its own species. That animal, called Nanotyrannus, turns out to represent not just one form but two closely related species.
Using an almost complete skeleton…
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Volcano Watch — One year of Kīlauea’s episodic summit fountaining: highlighting the hazards : Maui Now
“Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by US Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates.
On Dec, 23, 2024, a unique eruption began in Kīlauea’s Halemaʻumaʻu crater, with a…
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Neisseria meningitidis filamentous phage MDA promotes colonisation by selecting hyperadhesive pili variants
Dion, M. B., Oechslin, F. & Moineau, S. Phage diversity, genomics and phylogeny. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 18, 125–138 (2020).
Hay, I. D. & Lithgow, T. Filamentous phages: masters of a microbial…
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Scientists Just Discovered the Oldest Human Footprint Ever Found, Hidden in Chilean Mud
A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint in the Americas. The discovery suggests that humans may have reached South America more than 1,000 years earlier…
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This “mushroom” is not a fungus, it’s a bizarre plant that breaks all the rules
In the damp shade beneath moss-covered trees, high in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or deep within the subtropical forests of Okinawa, an unusual organism quietly grows. At first glance, it resembles a mushroom. In reality, it is a…
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NASA just caught a rare glimpse of an interstellar comet
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has captured important new data on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using its Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS). In July, 3I/ATLAS became the third officially confirmed interstellar…
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What scientists found inside Titan was not what anyone expected
A new examination of spacecraft data collected more than ten years ago suggests that Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, probably does not contain a massive ocean beneath its frozen surface, as scientists once believed. Instead, moving downward through…
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What scientists found inside Titan was not what anyone expected
A new examination of spacecraft data collected more than ten years ago suggests that Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, probably does not contain a massive ocean beneath its frozen surface, as scientists once believed. Instead, moving downward through…
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