Ancient Australia was home to strange marsupial giants, some weighing over 1,000 kg

Palorchestid marsupials, an extinct group of Australian megafauna, had strange bodies and lifestyles unlike any living…

Gemini observatory captures multicolor image of first-ever interstellar comet

The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System has been successfully imaged by the Gemini Observatory…

Scientists sharpen gene editing tool

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine scientists have fine-tuned their delivery system to deliver a DNA…

NASA-NOAA satellite's night-time look at Tropical Storm Kiko

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean in the early hours of Sept.…

GPM analyzes rainfall in Bahamas from potential Tropical Cyclone 9

As the Bahamas continue to recover from Category 5 hurricane Dorian, a new developing tropical cyclone…

Undergraduate engineers advance shock wave mitigation research

A team of undergraduate engineers at UC San Diego has discovered a method that could make…

How microtubules branch in new directions, a first look in animals

Cell biologist Thomas Maresca and senior research fellow Vikash Verma at the University of Massachusetts Amherst…

Team discovers polymorph selection during crystal growth can be thermodynamically driven

Technology is getting smaller—which is good news. Click here for original story, Team discovers…

Paramagnetic spins take electrons for a ride, produce electricity from heat

An international team of researchers has observed that local thermal perturbations of spins in a solid…

Using an optical tweezer array of laser-cooled molecules to observe ground state collisions

A team of researchers from Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found that they…