Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star located around 650 light-years away in the constellation of Orion, underwent a historic dimming between December 2019 and March 2020.
Using a clinical scanning device, researchers in Switzerland have successfully captured CT images of the 17,000-year-old tusk of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius).
Isopod crustaceans, including members of the deep-sea genus Bathynomus, are distantly related to their better-known decapod relatives: the crabs, shrimp, and lobsters.
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected the emission from 13CO - measure of the molecular gas distribution - in a circumplanetary disk embedded in the protoplanetary disk of the T Tauri star AS 209. “As a giant planet forms, it opens a gap in its parent circumstellar disk,” said University of ...]
Scientists at Yale University have used embryological imaging techniques to examine bird pelvic tissues in 3D, allowing direct comparison with the fossil record.
The Santa Marta sabrewing (Campylopterus phainopeplus) has been unexpectedly rediscovered in the highlands of Colombia 13 years after it was last seen.
Over 50,000 years ago, Leptoptilos robustus -- an extinct species of large-bodied stork around 1.8 m tall -- co-existed with mysterious miniature human relatives Homo floresiensis.
