These toxin delivery systems are fully analogous to and often rival the complexity of venom delivery systems found in animals such as venomous snakes, scorpions and spiders. Toxinologists and other ...

A team of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the United States, and France has observed 128 additional moons orbiting the gas giant Saturn, bringing its total number of confirmed moons to 274. The ...

Black holes may transition into white holes, ejecting matter and even time back into the Universe, according to a new study by physicists from the University of Sheffield and the Universidad ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis have generated a chromosome-scale reference genome for the most widely grown pistachio cultivar ‘Kerman.’ Although commonly known as nuts, pistachio ...

A cryptic new species of the honeyeater genus Myzomela has been described by an international team of ornithologists from Malaysia, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. Myzomela is the ...

The Lambda-CDM (ΛCDM) model has been the foundation of modern cosmology for some time now, successfully describing large-scale structures in the Universe. It proposes that 95% of the cosmos is ...

Neutron stars are the dense remnants of massive stars, more than 8 times as massive as our Sun, born at the end of their lives in a brilliant supernova explosion. These incredibly dense objects have ...

Pelage coloration, which serves numerous functions, is crucial to the evolution of behavior, physiology, and habitat preferences of mammals. However, little is known about the coloration of Mesozoic ...

Molecular signaling pathways are communication systems that transmit messages within and between cells. According to a new study by University of Geneva scientists, inhibiting one such system, called ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected oxygen in the most distant confirmed galaxy ever found, JADES-GS-z14-0. This detection, made by two different ...

The megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, is an iconic shark represented primarily by its gigantic teeth in the Neogene fossil record, but the lack of well-preserved skeletons has hampered the ...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of obruchevodid petalodont (petal-toothed) shark from multiple teeth unearthed at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, the United States. The ...