1+ hour, 22+ min ago  (754+ words) Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree 'soup' of unimaginably dense plasma. In a breakthrough experiment, researchers have found the first evidence that this exotic primordial goo did actually slosh and swirl like soup. In slightly…...

4+ hour, 22+ min ago  (517+ words) Some dinosaurs were scaly, some were covered in bony plates of armor, and others were even feathered. But now paleontologists have discovered a new species with a type of skin covering that's never been seen in dinosaurs before: hollow spikes....

8+ hour, 22+ min ago  (956+ words) Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male determination, it was thought this loss would not affect health. But evidence has mounted over the…...

10+ hour, 22+ min ago  (757+ words) In places like Chernobyl and Fukushima, where nuclear disasters have flooded the environment with dangerous radiation, it makes sense that life might evolve ways to survive it. But one of the most radiation-resistant organisms ever discovered doesn't come from anywhere…...

11+ hour, 21+ min ago  (445+ words) This week in science: the generational effects of nuclear radiation discovered in the children of Chernobyl cleanup workers; simple habits that could reduce your risk of dementia; a new light therapy 'hat' for hair loss; and much more! Scientists have…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (684+ words) A study on worms led by researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the US has uncovered a previously unknown adaptation to aging that actively remodels one of the largest and most complex structures in our cells. Not only…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (763+ words) Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, radar images have revealed strange, plume-like structures distorting the layering deposited over eons. Now, more than a decade after their discovery, scientists think they have figured out what causes these structures, and it's a…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (664+ words) Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago " raising big questions about how long these reversals actually take, and how we might be affected by the next one. Magnetic field flips…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (799+ words) A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. The star cluster in question is called Palomar 5. It's a stellar stream that stretches out across…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (565+ words) Researchers in China have found a potential new biomarker of Parkinson's disease hiding in human hair. When the team analyzed the hair of 60 patients with Parkinson's and compared the results with those of healthy, age-matched controls, they found a distinct…...