Earliest land animals had fewer skull bones than fish, restricting their evolution

The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for…

Slowing of continental plate movement controlled the timing of Earth's largest volcanic events

Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that…

Unique ferroelectric microstructure revealed for first time

A team of researchers have observed and reported for the first time the unique microstructure of…

Exploring an ancestral Maya neighborhood

We stand in the open fields of Spanish Lookout, a modernized Mennonite farming community in Central…

Preparing the MTG-I1 weather satellite for launch

Before Europe’s first Meteosat Third Generation Imager leaves the south of France at the end of…

Researchers propose novel method to enhance electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide

A research team led by Profs. Chen Wei and Wei Wei from the Shanghai Advanced Research…

Innovative liquid-lithium charge stripper boosts accelerator performance

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) accelerates heavy-ion beams at beam power up to 400…

New guidance published on how to best support qualitative researchers

New guidance—devised by a group of twelve researchers from various disciplines and institutions—is published today in…

Turkey may turn to Russia if US blocks F-16 sales: Erdogan

DefenceTalkPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey may turn to countries such as Russia if…

Climate models unreliable in predicting wave damage to coral reefs, say scientists

Climate models are unreliable when it comes to predicting the damage that tropical cyclones will do…