Category: 7. Science

Nanotyrannus lancensis — long thought by many to be a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex — was in fact a fully mature, distinct species of smaller tyrannosaurid, according to a team of U.S. paleontologists who analyzed the ceratobranchial (hyoid…

A toaster-sized robot just took a major step toward autonomous space navigation.

Stanford researchers have successfully demonstrated a machine-learning-based control system aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for the first…

Here’s what’s launching Dec. 8–14: SpaceX flies for the NRO, Rocket Lab launches for JAXA, and China continues its space surge with multiple flights.

A sweeping new analysis argues that complex cells began evolving almost a billion years earlier than many timelines suggest, long before oxygen became abundant in Earth’s atmosphere.

Led by the University of Bristol, the work redraws the early…

New observations of one of the famous TRAPPIST-1 planets are once again teasing scientists with tantalizing clues about a world that may — or may not — harbor an atmosphere capable of sustaining life-friendly liquid water.

TRAPPIST-1e is one…

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1000 solar masses, placing them in between stellar black holes and supermassive black holes. But while there’s plenty of evidence for both stellar mass…

A new study led by researchers at the University of Ottawa provides a series of highly detailed 3D models of the…

When it comes to brain function, neurons get a lot of the glory. But healthy brains depend on the cooperation of many kinds of cells. The most abundant of the brain’s non-neuronal cells are astrocytes, star-shaped cells…

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