Researchers have discovered a new design motif derived from the rigid external covering of invertebrates that may help create more damage tolerant materials for future building and construction. Go to… Read More »New discovery in animal exoskeletons leads to advances in designing construction materials
An international team of astronomers has spotted the most distant astronomical object ever: a galaxy. Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to the… Read More »Astronomers have spotted the farthest galaxy ever
In a laboratory under a mountain, physicists are using crystals far colder than frozen air to study ghostly particles, hoping to learn secrets from the beginning of the universe. Researchers… Read More »Research places new limits on the bizarre behavior of neutrinos
Scientists have just identified a mysterious new species of extinct mammal. This fearsome bobcat-sized creature prowled the rainforests of what is now San Diego, Calif., some 42 million years ago.… Read More »One of the earliest meat-eating mammals was saber-toothed
Astronomers have discovered bloated Jupiter-sized worlds that are so precariously close to their parent star they are being roasted at seething temperatures above 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s hot enough to… Read More »Hubble probes extreme weather on ultra-hot Jupiters