Astronomers have spotted for the first time a trio of supermassive galaxies that were already fully formed in the first billion years of the universe’s existence.
These scarlet star-makers — identified thanks to imaging and spectrograph data by the James...
Chiara Mingarelli, a physicist with a passion for science communication, devotes much of her professional time to deciphering the furtive chirps of gravitational waves from the far reaches of the universe.
But that is not her only entry point for the ways...
An extinct reptile’s oddly shaped chompers, fingers, and ear bones may tell us quite a bit about the resilience of life on Earth, according to a new study.
In fact, paleontologists at Yale, Sam Houston State University, and the University of the...
Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of Yale paleontologists prefers drumsticks. That part of the leg, they say, is where fibular reduction among some dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago...
Traditionally, taking inventory of the species in a rainforest requires sending in a team of experts with field guides and binoculars for a multi-day expedition. But the devastating pace of the destruction of the world’s rainforests and increasing urgency...
