1+ hour, 18+ min ago  (860+ words) Early humans living in Europe some 40,000 years ago developed a conventional system of geometric signs " deliberate, repeatable markings that went beyond decoration and hint at an early form of structured communication, according to a study published this week in the…...

2+ hour, 26+ min ago  (430+ words) Schematic of the expansion of the Universe from the Big Bang to the present day. Image credit: NASA / EFBrazil. "This result is very significant " it's important to obtain an independent measurement of the Hubble constant to resolve the current Hubble…...

22+ hour, 43+ min ago  (11+ words) Early Triassic Fossils from Australia Uncover Diverse Marine Amphibian Community'Sci.News...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (542+ words) New research recalibrates the age of the Jordan Valley's Ubeidiya Formation to nearly two million years, putting it on par with the famous site of Dmanisi in Georgia. This could mark a pivotal moment in human evolution " evidence that early…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (358+ words) A stunning new image from the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) reveals the complex interplay of gas and dust expelled by two members of the stellar system AFGL 4106. Tomassini et al. characterized the…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (649+ words) Two species of myllokunmingiid fishes that lived in what is now China around 518million years ago (Cambrian period) possessed two large lateral eyes and two smaller, centrally positioned eyes, according to new research led by Yunnan University paleontologists. An artist's reconstruction…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (390+ words) Tiranti et al. mapped the vertical structure of Uranus" upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the planet. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / STScI / P. Tiranti / H. Melin / M. Zamani, ESA & Webb. The upper atmosphere of Uranus…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (450+ words) New dating of fossil skulls from the Early Pleistocene site of Yunxian in China suggests that early members of Homo erectus lived in eastern Asia nearly 1.77 million years ago, pushing the region's human story back at least 670,000 years and strengthening…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (528+ words) NASA astronaut Michael Scott Hopkins performs a microgravity experiment on the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA. In the BioAsteroid project, University of Edinburgh's Professor Charles Cockell and his colleagues used the bacterial species Sphingomonas desiccabilis and the fungus species…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (447+ words) New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal a galaxy with sweeping gaseous "tentacles" in a galaxy cluster at redshift of 1.156, meaning we"re seeing it as it was approximately 8.5 billion years ago. This Webb image…...