Category: 7. Science

Two small upper jaws pulled from Morocco’s phosphate mines reveal a new duck-billed dinosaur, Taleta taleta, that lived about 66 million years ago. The find is formally described in a peer-reviewed paper.

Taleta joins a short list of late…

Laboratories in space could be the key to finding a cure for motor neurone disease, experts believe.

Space is the next frontier for the research and development of new drugs and vaccines because the unique conditions allow for novel experiments…

Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that reached back through time, flooded the zone, counted the stars, scored science goals, and topped it all off with a ten-course meal.

First, scientists make a major…

There’s no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy that will have you exploring everything from twinkling stars and constellations to roving planets, distant galaxies and…

Nov. 15 (UPI) — SpaceX launched two rockets with a total of 58 Starlink Internet satellites about 3 1/2 hours apart overnight Saturday in the private company’s quickest turnaround from Florida’s Space Coast.

In all, there have been a record 98…

The pursuit of practical quantum computers demands qubits that function reliably and can be manufactured using industrial-scale processes, and a team led by Danqing Wang from Yale University, Yufeng Wu, and Naomi Pieczulewski from Cornell…

As the 21st century gathers pace, it’s clear we’re living through a golden age of scientific discovery. From rewiring our understanding of the Universe to reshaping the tools of everyday life, breakthroughs once thought impossible are now…

Scientists may have found a new way to help the body rebuild its own bones. The key is a receptor called GPR133, a kind of surface switch that turns on bone-forming cells.

When researchers activated this switch with a compound called AP503, mice…