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Scientists are learning more about what appears to be one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs known, a two-legged beast whose bones were found several years ago in the fossil-rich Patagonia region of Argentina.
A Massachusetts observatory unveiled a powerful new telescope on Tuesday designed to capture possible light signals transmitted to Earth by extraterrestrials.
A bacterium that lives in rivers, streams and human aqueducts uses nature's strongest glue to stay in one place, according to new research by Indiana University Bloomington and Brown University scientists reported in next week's (April 11) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Proving prehistoric man's ingenuity and ability to withstand and inflict excruciating pain, researchers have found that dental drilling dates back 9,000 years.
A new version of lenses which use liquid crystal display technology similar to that from modern TV sets and mobile phones may soon be replacing the actual bi- or varifocal eyeglasses commonly used nowadays by millions of people worldwide.
For a few minutes on March 29, the moon will block out the sun in a total solar eclipse. It starts at dawn in the eastern tip of Brazil, before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to West and North Africa. From there, it'll sweep across Turkey toward Georgia, Russia, and Kazakhstan, before ending in Mongolia at sunset.
Analyses of the gases dissolved in water trapped in ancient minerals suggest
that methane-generating microbes have been around almost 3.5 billion years, more
than 700 million years longer than previous geologic evidence had indicated.
