Scientists have identified a new DNA structure in human cells. It's in the form of a twisted knot and it exists alongside the well-known double helix.
This form resembles a twisted “knot” of DNA, instead of the well-known double helix first described by James Watson and Francis Crick.
Lab work has...
A mummified wolf puppy has been found in Yukon Territory, where it was perfectly preserved in the permafrost for an estimated 57,000 years.
The puppy mummy is “100 per cent intact” and offers an unprecedented glimpse into the lives of ancient wolves, according to a new study published Monday in...
The Great American Eclipse of August 2017 left a ‘wake’ in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, the way a ship does when it moves through water. The phenomenon has been theorized about, but never before detected, according to Gizmodo.
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Haystack Observatory and the University...
Cutting edge technology has revealed that Viking women were warriors too.
By reconstructing a skull found in a Viking graveyard in Norway, British scientists have brought the face of a female warrior to life.
When scientists began to reconstruct her facial features it was discovered she had a serious head injury,...
In case you hadn’t already heard: Space junk is becoming a real problem. There’s so much manmade trash floating around in Earth’s orbit that it’s actually posing a danger to future space missions and even ongoing programs like the International Space Station. It’s bad, and with companies like SpaceX...
Astronomers have long struggled to understand how supermassive black holes could have formed in the early universe. They know these cosmic goliaths would have needed to grow extremely fast to achieve their supermassive status so quickly (within about 1 billion years of the Big Bang). But exactly where they...
NASA is due to announce a new discovery about the Moon that the agency has called ‘exciting'.
The discovery was made following observations by NASA’s SOFIA telescope, which is attached to a modified commercial jet flying high in the atmosphere. The space agency said it will make the announcement next...
Paleontologists have identified a new dinosaur with a crocodile-like snout that hunted in inland seas more than 60 million years ago.
Gavialimimus almaghribensis, a species of mosasaur, was catalogued by an international team led by Catie Strong, a researcher at the University of Alberta in Canada.
The marine predator’s remains were...
