Nociceptors are receptors that detect injurious stimuli and are necessary to convey such information from the periphery to the central nervous system. Crustaceans, such as shore crabs, are widely used ...

A radiation-resistant bacterium called Deinococcus radiodurans can withstand radiation doses thousands of times higher than what would kill a human. The secret behind this resistance is the presence ...

With the exception of ChatGPT 4o, almost all publicly available large language models subjected to a test called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) showed signs of mild cognitive impairment.

“Ichthyosaurs were a clade of secondarily aquatic marine reptiles that inhabited the seas for much of the Mesozoic Era, first appearing in the Early Triassic before their ultimate extinction at the ...

Archaeologists say they have discovered a new type of Neanderthal hearth at Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar. This hearth structure coincides with predictions from theoretical studies which require the use of ...

The Atacama Trench stretches along the eastern South Pacific Ocean, plunging to depths exceeding 8,000 m off the coast of northern Chile. The hadal zone, or the deepest 45% of the ocean (6,000-11,000 ...

Nearly 250 years ago, the very first pterosaur fossil was found in a quarry in northern Bavaria, Germany. Dubbed Pterodactylus, this 150-million-year-old fossil provided the first evidence for an ...

Homo juluensis — a newly-erected human species that includes enigmatic Denisovans and several hominin fossils from Tibet, Taiwan and Laos — lived in eastern Asia from around 300,000 years ago to ...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of the extinct armadillo genus Parutaetus from fossilized osteoderms collected in the state of Paraná in southern Brazil. Parutaetus oliveirai inhabited ...

The OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand their atmospheric dynamics and evolution.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three ultra-massive galaxies — nearly as massive as our own Milky Way Galaxy — already in place within the first billion ...

XX Trianguli, a bright K0-type giant star in a binary system located in the constellation of Triangulum, exhibits chaotic, non-periodic star spot behavior, according to a team of astronomers from the ...