3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (637+ words) A Curtin University-led research team has successfully identified the mysterious origin of several 4,000-year-old 25-ton stones, which ancient architects used to construct Britain’s iconic Devil’s Arrows, as Birmingham Rocks in North Yorkshire, over 11 miles (18 kilometers) from the monument’s location. The…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (551+ words) Tyrannosaurus Rex was likely one of the Cretaceous period’s most fearsome predators, and a new discovery is revealing how the long-extinct dinosaur may have moved. In a recent paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, an international team of…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1390+ words) One of the most popular explanations of human behavior has been that somewhere beneath our rational mind lurks an ancient “lizard brain”—a primitive evolutionary holdover responsible for instinct, emotion, fear, and aggression. There is just one problem. Neuroscientists have…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1018+ words) For more than a decade, scientists have known that strange bacteria living in aquatic mud can conduct electricity along distances thousands of times longer than a single bacterial cell. Such long-range electrical conduction should be extraordinarily difficult for a living…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (370+ words) An important Egyptian tomb from the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom has been discovered in the Saqqara necropolis by a Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission. Josep Cervelló, an Egyptology professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, led the work, which was…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (429+ words) The Debrief A New Organism’s “Alien” Reproduction, Levitation and Dark Matter, and Genetic Evidence of an Ancient Killer This week in stories we’re covering at The Debrief… Scientists say they have discovered an organism whose behavior mirrors the reproductive horror…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (530+ words) The extinct American cheetah wasn’t a true cheetah at all, say biologists in new research overturning our previous understanding of the legendary predator, revealing a cautionary tale about superficial scientific interpretations. In a recent paper published in Current Biology, a…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (520+ words) A recent study published in Protist reports that a marine microorganism reproduces in a previously unknown way: by creating new cells inside its body, then rupturing to release them. The bizarre process is reminiscent of the reproductive horror depicted in…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (500+ words) Astronomers monitoring an unusual young neutron star report a stellar surprise after years of apparent silence, as the space object has displayed sudden changes in its rotation, including one large event they characterize as a “glitch” that could point to…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (530+ words) In a promising advancement in the search for dark matter, scientists have transformed a tiny magnet into a detector that can sense some of nature’s faintest forces—with a little help from levitation. The research could help researchers detect some…...