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Mars life search gets boost as rover test distinguishes mirrored biosignature molecules

Billions of years ago, environmental conditions on Mars were significantly more hospitable than they are today. Our neighboring planet was likely warm,...

A Vietnam Veteran Collected Fossils for 66 Years. One, Mislabeled 'Baby Lamprey,' Made Paleontologists Reconsider How Vertebrates Moved From Water to Land

Richard Rock—a Vietnam War veteran, a Master Gardener and an avid fossil collector—has been picking up rocks for 66 years. His favored site is Mazon Creek,...

An earthquake hit Japan so hard it made the entire country move

This “extraordinary” event was likely caused by seismic waves bouncing off Earth's core, researchers found.

How New Fossil Discoveries Just Rewrote the History of Land Life

We've all seen some version of the classic evolutionary diagram. A fish crawls out of a primordial swamp, sprouts legs, transforms into something resembling...

Japan’s 2011 earthquake was so powerful that it shifted the entire country’s location

Japan's catastrophic Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011 was so strong that it caused the entire country to “slip,” in some areas by as much as five or six...

Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animals conquered the land

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval stage with external gills like...

A Giant Seismic Wave Bounced Off Earth's Core And May Have Shifted Japan

When the magnitude 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake struck off the coast of Japan in 2011, its seismic shivers did more than ripple through the planet.

Massive Tohoku Earthquake Sent a Seismic Wave That Shifted All of Japan

Researchers discovered an unusual, nationwide shift when examining GPS records of the Tohoku earthquake.

NASA Flyby Reveals Violent Origin of Weird Peanut-Shaped Asteroid

On April 20, 2025, the Lucy spacecraft swooped by an odd-looking asteroid, capturing close-up views of its peanut-shaped body and cratered surface.

Waves reflecting off Earth's core shifted Japan after 2011 earthquake

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of Japan to move 5 millimetres to...

'Timescapes' may help explain how animal species perceive events so differently in time

There is evidence that nonhuman animals perceive the world, and how it unfolds in time, differently from humans and from each other.

Fossilized babies of ancient crocodile-like predators uproot understanding of how animals adapted to the land

Baby crocodile-like early tetrapods called embolomeres. New fossil evidence suggests that these embolomeres did not undergo a metamorphosis the way that...

A 2011 earthquake bounced a seismic wave off Earth’s core, nudging Japan east

The wave's round trip to Earth's core set off a fault slip along Japan's plate boundaries, revealing a seismic hazard scientists hadn't recognized.

A textbook assumption about early land vertebrates may be wrong

New fossil evidence is overturning a long-held assumption about how vertebrates first transitioned from water to land. The hatchlings of three different...

Scientists Find Unusual Planet with Salt Clouds 54 Light-Years from Earth

An international team of astronomers has identified unusual clouds composed of mineral salts in the atmosphere of exoplanet GJ504B,… – Zamin.uz, 18.06.2026.

LIFT OFF! 🚀 The Ariane 6 has lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana carrying 36 satellites for Amazon Leo into low Earth orbit, in which the European Space Agency is saying it is "more powerful than ever before." (📸: ESA, arianspace/IG)

Dopamine dictates how long sexual drive remains suppressed after stress

Scientists have identified the biochemical links between stress and reduced sexual motivation. By studying fruit flies, they found that dopamine prolongs...

Vanderford Glacier, Credit: Monash SAEF (IMAGE)

Vanderford Glacier, Credit: Monash SAEF (IMAGE). Monash University. Facebook X LinkedIn WeChat Bluesky Message WhatsApp Email. Vanderford Glacier, Credit:...

“It would have seen Lucy and thought, ‘Dinner.’” The newly-discovered prehistoric monster croc that would have terrified – and hunted – humans

Researchers have newly identified a huge apex predator that terrorised early humans and laid in wait for its prey.

Pink Planet illustration (IMAGE)

This artistic illustration of the Pink Planet, or GJ504b, orbiting its host star. Astronomers think the object is pink because it's incredibly old (between...